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History, Religion
Questo libro aprirà gli occhi alle conseguenze di tutte le nostre azioni ai nostri destini e ai nostri figli; anche… quelli ancora nati. L'oggetto delle maledizioni è stato a lungo trascurato, e abbiamo ritenuto necessario esporli. Cominciamo entrando nelle Scritture per conoscere esattamente ciò che Dio ha da dire su di loro, su come operano e come possiamo essere liberi da loro. Le maledizioni generazionali sono così importanti che Dio li ha inclusi nella tabella dei Dieci Comandamenti. È un fatto che molti, compresi i cristiani di oggi, soffrono sotto le conseguenze di disobbedire ai comandamenti e alle aspettative di Dio. Tanti sono legati dal nemico con strumenti di schiavitù invisibili e non identificabili. In questo studio ci verrà insegnato come rompere queste catene originarie del nemico. Esploriamo più in profondità in aree come l'idolatria (compreso Halloween), l'immoralità, il tradimento, il furto, l'omicidio, ecc. Credo che mentre leggete questo libro e esplorerai le sue verità, vi sarà un tentativo di esaminare il proprio sé e fare sforzi deliberati di vivere una vita santa, se non per il tuo sé, almeno per il bene dei tuoi figli e delle generazioni ancora nati. Dio ti benedica mentre leghi questo libro e ti chiedo di leggerlo con un cuore aperto e con la mente che la tua comprensione potrebbe essere affilata a ciò che è veramente intorno a te.
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History, Religion
Les promesses de l'alliance de Dieu n'échouent pas. Ce livre est écrit pour vous aider à réaliser toutes les promesses… de Dieu pour votre vie. C'est une étude minutieuse et détaillée, avec des témoignages personnels, sur la capacité et la volonté de Dieu d'accomplir toutes ses paroles envers nous. Il a dit qu'il veille sur ses paroles pour les accomplir. Ici, nous examinerons de manière critique la dynamique d'une promesse divine; comment elle est établie, entretenue et nourrie à la réalisation. Chaque promesse d'alliance a son commencement, son calendrier et ses conditions. Nous devons toujours le savoir pour être en mesure de parfaitement et confortablement s'adapter à la volonté de Dieu pour notre vie. En effet, toute chose est possible avec Dieu!
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History, Religion
Pourquoi tout ce que j'entreprends échoue? Pourquoi rien ne va dans ma vie? Pourquoi dans cette région ou dans ce… pays personne ne prospère? Je dois être maudit(e)! Et si c'est le cas, pourquoi? Comment y faire face? Que dit Dieu à ce sujet?
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History, Religion
A promessa da aliança de Deus não falha. Esse livro foi escrito para te ajudar a alcançar as promessas de… Deus na tua vida. É um estudo cuidadosamente elaborado com testemunhos pessoais, sobre a capacidade e vontade de Deus para cumprir Sua palavra em nossas vidas. Ele disse que Ele zela por Sua palavra para trazê-la a existência. Aqui, nós analisaremos criticamente a dinâmica da promessa de Deus; com ela é estabelecida, mantida e nutrida para ser concretizada. Toda promessa de aliança tem um inicio, tempo e condição. Nós temos que saber disso para sermos capazes de nos encaixarmos perfeita e confortavelmente na vontade de Deus para a nossa vida. Realmente, todas as coisas são possíveis com Deus! Leia e seja abençoado! Gabriel Agbo
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History, Religion
O Fim do Sofrimento Esse livro abrirá teus olhos para as conseqüências de todas as nossas ações e para nossos… destinos e de nossos filhos; mesmo aqueles que ainda não nasceram. O assunto "maldições" tem sido negligenciado, e nós descobrimos que é necessário expô-lo aqui. Nós começamos indo as escrituras para saber exatamente o que Deus tem a dizer a respeito de maldições, como elas operam e como nós podemos ser livres deles completamente. Maldições Hereditárias são tão importantes que Deus as incluiu nas Tábuas dos Dez Mandamentos. Muitas pessoas estão amarradas pelo inimigo com instrumentos de escravidão invisíveis e não identificáveis. Neste estudo, nós ensinaremos como quebrar essas cadeias que se originam do inimigo. Nós exploramos profundamente áreas como idolatria (incluindo o Dia das Bruxas - Halloween), imortalidade, roubo, assassinato, etc. Eu acredito que assim que você ler esse livro e explorar suas verdades haverá uma agitação em você para examinar por si mesmo e você se esforçará para se libertar e viver uma vida santa se for para você mesmo, ao menos por conta de seus filhos e gerações que ainda não nascerão. Que Deus possa te abençoar durante a leitura deste livro e Eu peço que você o leia com um coração e mente aberto, e que teu entendimento possa ser afinado com o que realmente está a tua volta.
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Adventure stories, History
Alla fine del XVIII secolo, nelle remote terre africane, il villaggio di Kofi viene selvaggiamente attaccato ed egli viene catturato… e reso schiavo. Grazie a un’insperata svolta del destino, scampa alla morte e all’imbarco verso le piantagioni del Nuovo Mondo. In cambio, però, resta prigioniero nel castello di Cape Coast. Da lì, a rischio della sua stessa vita, riesce a mantenere una corrispondenza segreta con la donna che ama. Duecento anni dopo, l’antropologa Claudia Carpio viene inviata in quella che un tempo era nota come la Costa D’Oro. Mentre è occupata nella stesura dell’articolo più importante della sua carriera, le lettere misteriose arrivano nelle sue mani. Sconvolta dal loro brusco e sconcertante finale, si vede costretta a indagare nel torbido passato per scoprire cos’è successo a Kofi e perché ha smesso di scrivere. Non può sapere, però, che alcuni aspetti della storia non sono ancora conclusi e la coinvolgeranno in un gioco pericoloso. Un romanzo che ci trasporterà in luoghi esotici, in un intenso viaggio attraverso il tempo e le emozioni umane più profonde.
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Bestsellers (Non-fiction), History, United States history
Reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history; chronicles the Los Angeles Public Library fire… and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity; brings each department of the library to vivid life through on-the-ground reporting; studies arson attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; reflects on her own experiences in libraries; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago. Bestseller. 2018.
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History
By the author of the bestselling biographies of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, a reflection on: What are the roots… of creativity' What makes for great leadership' In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and various other larger-than-life characters he has chronicled as a biographer and a journalist. Isaacson reflects on how he became a writer, the lessons he learned from various people he met, and the challenges he sees for journalism in the digital age. He offers living tributes to his hometown of New Orleans, which both before and after Hurricane Katrina offered many of the ingredients for a creative culture, and to the Louisiana novelist Walker Percy, who was an early mentor.
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History, Environment, Dinosaurs
From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the arrival of the first people… in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates.In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How they got here, persevered, and ultimately thrived is a story that resonates from the Pleistocene to our modern era. The lower sea levels of the Ice Age exposed a vast land bridge between Asia and North America, but the land bridge was not the only way across. Different people arrived from different directions, and not all at the same time.The first explorers of the New World were few, their encampments fleeting. The continent they reached had no people but was inhabited by megafauna—mastodons, giant bears, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, five-hundred-pound panthers, enormous bison, and sloths that stood one story tall. The first people were hunters—Paleolithic spear points are still encrusted with the proteins of their prey—but they were wildly outnumbered and many would themselves have been prey to the much larger animals.Atlas of a Lost World chronicles the last millennia of the Ice Age, the violent oscillations and retreat of glaciers, the clues and traces that document the first encounters of early humans, and the animals whose presence governed the humans’ chances for survival. A blend of science and personal narrative reveals how much has changed since the time of mammoth hunters, and how little. Across unexplored landscapes yet to be peopled, readers will see the Ice Age, and their own age, in a whole new light.
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History, Politics and government
The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments… of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerged as actors in global politics. Long-established imperial regimes collapsed, some more or less peacefully, others amid mass violence. This book takes an incisive look at decolonization and its long-term consequences, revealing it to be a coherent yet multidimensional process at the heart of modern history.Jan Jansen and Jürgen Osterhammel trace the decline of European, American, and Japanese colonial supremacy from World War I to the 1990s. Providing a comparative perspective on the decolonization process, they shed light on its key aspects while taking into account the unique regional and imperial contexts in which it unfolded. Jansen and Osterhammel show how the seeds of decolonization were sown during the interwar period and argue that the geopolitical restructuring of the world was intrinsically connected to a sea change in the global normative order. They examine the economic repercussions of decolonization and its impact on international power structures, its consequences for envisioning world order, and the long shadow it continues to cast over new states and former colonial powers alike.Concise and authoritative, Decolonization is the essential introduction to this momentous chapter in history, the aftershocks of which are still being felt today.
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Historical biography, Biography, World War II, History, Self help, Death and bereavement
From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, an inspiring… memoir about finding strength in the face of despair.On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring nineteen, the New England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized for the second time in as many months. At the base of one of its fifty-four-foot glass towers lay a pile of shards. For Steve Ross, the image called to mind Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass in which German authorities and civilians ransacked Jewish-owned buildings with sledgehammers.Ross was eight years old when the Nazis invaded his Polish village, forcing his family to flee. He spent his next six years in a day-to-day struggle to survive the notorious camps in which he was imprisoned, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau among them. When he was finally liberated, he no longer knew how old he was, he was literally starving to death, and everyone in his family save for his brother had been killed.Ross learned in his darkest experiences--by observing and enduring inconceivable cruelty as well as by receiving compassion from caring fellow prisoners--the human capacity to rise above even the bleakest circumstances. He decided to devote himself to underprivileged youth, aiming to ensure that despite the obstacles in their lives they would never experience suffering like he had. Over the course of a nearly forty-year career as a psychologist working in the Boston city schools, that was exactly what he did. At the end of his career, he spearheaded the creation of the New England Holocaust Memorial, a site millions of people including young students visit every year.Equal parts heartrending, brutal, and inspiring, From Broken Glass is the story of how one man survived the unimaginable and helped lead a new generation to forge a more compassionate world.
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Adventurers and explorers, History
Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set… sail from England in August 1914. In January 1915, after battling its way for six weeks through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day’s sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. But for Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men, the ordeal had barely begun. It would end only after a miraculous journey through more than 850 miles of the South Atlantic’s heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. In Endurance, the definitive account of Shackleton’s fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing voyage that has defined heroism for the last century.
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History, Reference
Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where… there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn't question.) UNMENTIONABLE is your hilarious, illustrated, scandalously honest (yet never crass) guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood, giving you detailed advice on: ~ What to wear ~ Where to relieve yourself ~ How to conceal your loathsome addiction to menstruating ~ What to expect on your wedding night ~ How to be the perfect Victorian wife ~ Why masturbating will kill you ~ And moreIrresistibly charming, laugh-out-loud funny, and featuring nearly 200 images from Victorian publications, UNMENTIONABLE will inspire a whole new level of respect for Elizabeth Bennett, Scarlet O'Hara, Jane Eyre, and all of our great, great grandmothers. (And it just might leave you feeling ecstatically grateful to live in an age of pants, super absorbency tampons, epidurals, anti-depressants, and not-dying-of-the-syphilis-your-husband-brought-home.)
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History, World War II
The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51In… the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States.Many of these men were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg; one was convicted of mass murder and slavery. They were also directly responsible for major advances in rocketry, medical treatments, and the U.S. space program. Was Operation Paperclip a moral outrage, or did it help America win the Cold War?Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and with access to German archival documents (including previously unseen papers made available by direct descendants of the Third Reich's ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and dossiers discovered in government archives and at Harvard University, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into a startling, complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secret of the twentieth century.In this definitive, controversial look at one of America's most strategic, and disturbing, government programs, Jacobsen shows just how dark government can get in the name of national security.
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Historical fiction, History
Ésta es la historia que no te han contado del hombre que liberó a México, se convirtió en su primer… emperador y fue aplaudido como Dragón de Hierro. El héroe que olvidó la historia oficial. Agustín de Iturbide es recordado como uno de los grandes villanos de nuestra historia, pero ¿te has preguntado si en verdad fue así? Profundizar en su legado es un viaje por uno de los momentos más convulsos del siglo XIX, de la muerte de la Nueva España y del nacimiento del México moderno. Las luchas militares y personales de Agustín te adentrarán a batallas poco conocidas de la guerra de la Independencia, a su relación personal con la famosísima Güera Rodríguez, y al que se conoce como el día más feliz que ha tenido México, así como su primer gobierno. Descubrirás, de forma íntima, a uno de los caudillos que definió su época y al que se ha convertido, para muchos, en el otro padre de la patria. Iturbide es una nueva forma de vivir la Independencia de México, que cambiará tu perspectiva sobre los hombres y mujeres que forjaron nuestra patria.
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History, Politics and government, Customs and cultures
Vuelve Harari Autor de Sapiens, bestseller del momento con más de diez millones de copias vendidas en todo el mundo.… Sapiens es un recorrido por nuestro pasado. Homo Deus, una mirada a nuestro futuro. 21 lecciones para el siglo XXI es una exploración de nuestro presente. ¿Cómo podemos protegernos de las guerras nucleares, los cataclismos ecológicos o las tecnologías disruptivas? ¿Qué podemos hacer contra la propagación de la posverdad o la amenaza del terrorismo? ¿Qué debemos enseñar a nuestros hijos? Con la misma prosa inteligente, fresca y provocadora, Harari vuelve a librerías con un nuevo título, 21 lecciones para el siglo XXI, en el que examina algunas de las cuestiones más urgentes de nuestro presente. El hilo dorado que recorre este estimulante nuevo libro es el desafío de mantener nuestro enfoque colectivo e individual frente al constante y desorientador cambio que estamos viviendo. ¿Somos aún capaces de entender el mundo que hemos creado?
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Politics and government biography, World War II, History
William Manchester met Winston Churchill on January 24, 1953. Their encounter on the Queen Mary sparked an intense curiosity in… Manchester that would eventually result in his classic three-volume magnum opus The Last Lion. In this, the first volume, we follow Churchill from his birth to 1932, when he began to warn against the remilitarization of Germany. Born of a lovely, wanton American mother and a gifted but unstable son of a duke, his childhood was one of wretched neglect. He sought glory on the battlefields of Cuba, Sudan, India, South Africa and the trenches of France. In Parliament he was the prime force behind the creation of Iraq and Jordan, laid the groundwork for the birth of Israel, and negotiated the independence of the Irish Free State. Yet, as Chancellor of the Exchequer he plunged England into economic crisis, and his fruitless attempt to suppress Gandhi's quest for Indian independence brought political chaos to Britain.Throughout, Churchill learned the lessons that would prepare him for the storm to come, and as the 1930's began, he readied himself for the coming battle against Nazism--an evil the world had never before seen.
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History, United States history, Lifestyle
Joe McCarthy. Marilyn Monroe. The H-bomb. Ozzie and Harriet. Elvis. Civil rights. It’s undeniable: The fifties were a defining decade… for America, complete with sweeping cultural change and political upheaval. This decade is also the focus of David Halberstam’s triumphant The Fifties, which stands as an enduring classic and was an instant New York Times bestseller upon its publication. More than a survey of the decade, it is a masterfully woven examination of far-reaching change, from the unexpected popularity of Holiday Inn to the marketing savvy behind McDonald’s expansion. A meditation on the staggering influence of image and rhetoric, The Fifties is vintage Halberstam, who was hailed by the Denver Post as “a lively, graceful writer who makes you . . . understand how much of our time was born in those years.” This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.
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History, Politics and government, General non-fiction
In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new… prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world. In The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world's hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppe's pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland. Kaplan then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia. Remarkably, the future can be understood in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties: China, able to feed only 23 percent of its people from land that is only 7 percent arable, has sought energy, minerals, and metals from such brutal regimes as Burma, Iran, and Zimbabwe, putting it in moral conflict with the United States. Afghanistan's porous borders will keep it the principal invasion route into India, and a vital rear base for Pakistan, India's main enemy. Iran will exploit the advantage of being the only country that straddles both energy-producing areas of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Finally, Kaplan posits that the United States might rue engaging in far-flung conflicts with Iraq and Afghanistan rather than tending to its direct neighbor Mexico, which is on the verge of becoming a semifailed state due to drug cartel carnage. A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century's looming cataclysms.Advance praise for The Revenge of Geography "Robert D. Kaplan wields geography like a scalpel, using it to examine international relations and conflicts that globalization fails to explain. The Revenge of Geography is a sagacious account of how geography has shaped the world we know--and what this means for the future. Kaplan's wedding of historical and present-day analysis on a region-by-region basis makes for a well-researched, entertaining, and informative read that cannot be ignored."--Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and author of Every Nation for Itself "The importance of geography in shaping history is the great issue that Robert Kaplan tackles in this extraordinary book. Thirty years of scholarship and travel lie behind his recounting of human triumphs and conflicts through the ages. At the heart of his wide-ranging analysis is his belief in the abiding influence of geography on human behavior, now and in the future."--James Hoge, counselor, Council on Foreign RelationsFrom the Hardcover edition.
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History
<P>Destined to become a modern classic in the vein of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Sapiens is a lively, groundbreaking history… of humankind told from a unique perspective. <P>100,000 years ago, at least six species of human inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. <P> Us. Homo Sapiens. <P>How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations, and human rights; to trust money, books, and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables, and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? <P>In Sapiens, Dr. Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical -- and sometimes devastating -- breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural, and Scientific Revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, palaeontology, and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behaviour from the heritage of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come? <P>Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power...and our future. <P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>