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Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin [EPUB ebook] 

John S. Peart-Binns brings us a fresh and distinctive view of Herbert Hensley Henson, the eighty-sixth Bishop of Durham, who is shown here to have formed his own character and forged his own way amid …

Constantin von Tischendorf was a pioneer. He existed in an age when biblical studies as we know it was being formed, when the quest for forgotten manuscripts and lost treasures was being undertaken w …

I looked again at the folded map of Europe in my hand. Then I crossed the road to the Continental booking office and bought a ticket for Salzburg in Austria. “Return?’ asked the clerk. “Definitely no …

A novel chronicle that speaks of cruelty and torture in Uzbekistan. …

”In 1605 a crippled, greying, almost toothless veteran of Spain”s wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. That book, Don Quixote , went on to sell more copies than any other book beside t …

“Some people hate me, some people would prefer it if I didn’t exist. Incidentally, I feel the same way about them.”“I’m a young person managing my own life, my transition and everything else that I h …

With his blonde dreadlocks and his speed on the running track, Jamie Baulch earned the nickname ”The Flying Pineapple”. This is Jamie’s story about his life as one of the most decorated British ath …

How do academics survive the bureaucracy, the petty jealousies, the absurdities of operating in the university? More important, how do they, as humans, cope with the darker shadows that enter profess …

An in-depth study of Ma Xiangbo, one of the most prominent Catholic thinkers in modern China. …

In his travel narrative Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879), Robert Louis Stevenson declares, ‘I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel”s sake. The great affair is to mov …