![]() ![]() In 1913, he was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences. He also edited several scholarly journals of Muslim studies, and contributed extensively to the first edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam. Barthold was the first to publish obscure information from the early Arab historians on the Kievan Rus'. In the two volumes of his dissertation (Turkestan down to the Mongol Invasion, 1898-1900), he pointed out the many benefits the Muslim world derived from Mongol rule after the initial conquests. His career spanned the last decades of the Russian Empire and the first years of the Soviet Union.īarthold's lectures at the University of Saint Petersburg were annually interrupted by extended field trips to Muslim countries. Petersburg to a Russianized German family. Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold (Russian: Васи́лий Влади́мирович Барто́льд 1869–1930), who published in the West under his German baptism name, Wilhelm Barthold, was a Russian orientalist who specialized in the history of Islam and the Turkic peoples (Turkology).īarthold was born in St. ![]() His biography has been translated into 24 different languages. With an HPI of 57.36, Vasily Bartold is the 2nd most famous Russian Historian. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments I have a rendezvous with death![]() Alight with sorrow, grace, silliness, satire, pride, and anger, works by IWW members, sock poets, pacifists, and protestors take their places next to those by Edith Wharton, Alan Seeger, Wallace Stevens, James Weldon Johnson, Amy Lowell, and Claude McKay. In this poem the boy does not run away in fear of death, but knows it will. ![]() The most complete resource of its kind, Rendezvous with Death brings together poetry originally published in little magazines, labor journals, newspapers. This poem is a young soldiers poem about facing the real possibility of dying. His historical and biographical notes provide a sturdy framework for the study of poetry's role in social activism and change during the "war to end war." Van Wienen describes the rapid, politically charged responses possible in a culture attuned to poetry. ![]() ![]() This masterfully assembled volume, arranged chronologically, reveals American poets' shifting, conflicting reactions to the war and highlights their efforts to shape U.S. Not every hookup on Queen Charlotte is about duty, of course After the death of her husband, Lady Danbury starts spending more time with Lord Ledger, and the two end up in bed. ![]() About the Book"Instead of privileging the figure of the front-line and largely British soldier-poet, Van Wienen supplements the well-known canon of Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Siegfried Sassoon with lesser-known but nevertheless widely read American combatants, civilians, and women who wrote passionately on the events of World War I." –- Walter Kalaidjian, author of American Culture between the Wars: Revisionary Modernism and Postmodern Critique ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Century trilogy book 3![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What seeds will be sown for further tragedy in the twentieth century and what role will each play in what is to come?Ĭontinue the captivating Century Trilogy with Winter of the World and Edge of Eternity. When Russia convulses in bloody revolution and the Great War unfolds, the five families’ futures are entwined forever, love bringing them closer even as conflict takes them further apart. And when Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London, their destiny also becomes entangled with that of Gus Dewar, an ambitious young aide to Woodrow Wilson, and two orphaned Russian brothers whose plan to emigrate to America falls foul of conscription, revolution and imminent war. The escalating arms race between the empire nations will put not only the king but this young boy in grave danger.īilly’s family is inextricably linked with the Fitzherberts, the aristocratic owners of the coal mine where he works. The price for the book starts from 18.67 on Amazon and is available from 18 sellers at the moment. Currently, the best offer comes from and is for the. The first in Ken Follett's breathtaking Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women.ġ911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy Williams, begins working down the mines as George V is crowned king. You can buy the Edge of Eternity: Book Three of The Century Trilogy book at one of 20+ online bookstores with BookScouter, the website that helps find the best deal across the web. ![]() ![]() It's not easy reading, but we ignore his arguments at our peril. Maté looks to the root causes of addiction, applying a clinical and psychological view to the physical manifestation and offering some enlightening answers for why people inflict such catastrophe on themselves.įinally, he takes aim at the hugely ineffectual, largely U.S.-led War on Drugs (and its worldwide followers), challenging the wisdom of fighting drugs instead of aiding the addicts, and showing how controversial measures such as safe injection sites are measurably more successful at reducing drug-related crime and the spread of disease than anything most major governments have going. Maté's most dire patients who steal, cheat, sell sex, and otherwise harm themselves for their next hit. ![]() As Maté observes, "Those whom we dismiss as 'junkies' are not creatures from a different world, only men and women mired at the extreme end of a continuum on which, here or there, all of us might well locate ourselves." In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts begins by introducing us to many of Dr. His book is a powerful call-to-arms, both for the decriminalization of drugs and for a more sympathetic and informed view of addiction. ![]() Diligently treating the drug addicts of Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside with sympathy in his heart and legislative reform in mind can't be easy. He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Join the author on a journey of healing, comfort and Grace. The book includes meditations for healing that are easy to follow and useful for not only the most pressing moments of grief and loss, but throughout your lifetime. This might fly in the face of what's considered "normal grieving", but what the author experienced during her period of mourning was an amazing feeling of ease, comfort and nurturing - what she refers to as Grace - that kept her from drowning in the mire of doubt, wishful thinking and regret. ![]() She believes that others too c an start at acceptance and stay there throughout their journey of recovery. It may not be necessary to walk the normal stages of grief: from anger, denial, bargaining and depression to the final destination of acceptance. Filled with stories of hope and profound confidence in life after life, providing comfort and nurturing for anyone dealing with loss.ĭella Temple believes it's time to broaden the discussion about death and dying. ![]() Part memoir and part meditation guide, Walking in Grace with Grief combines Della's story of loss with teachings of energy awareness, mindfulness, and conscious living. Winner of the 2015 National Indie Excellence Award. The stories of a life un-lived." Della Temple It's the painful longing for the physical presence of our loved one and it's the emotional heartache we feel as we disengage from these unfulfilled dreams, the sorrows of what could have been. "I've come to think that grief is two-fold. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Tracker black leopard red wolf![]() ![]() THIS BOOK.” I read whatever cheap crap got dumped on the third world. ![]() Ron Charles of the Washington Post said that “James has spun an African fantasy as vibrant, complex and haunting as any western mythology and nobody who survives reading this book will ever forget it” the notoriously sniffy Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times declared that “with Tracker and the Leopard, James has created two compelling and iconic characters, characters who will take their place in the pantheon of memorable and fantastical superheroes” there was also a rave on the revered speculative fiction website Tor.com, with the reviewer, Alex Brown, getting himself into a right tizzy: “Y’all, Marlon James’s Black Leopard, Red Wolf is a miracle. ![]() The critics, whose panegyrics have been appearing over recent weeks, seem to agree. It’s complex, lyrical, moving and furiously gripping. But the best novels defy the narrow clannishness of genre labels and Black Leopard…is one of them. James’s UK publisher, he says, was worried that it would be “too literary for fantasy fans, too fantastical for literary fans”. I’ve read it twice already, I tell him, and love it as much as any book I’ve read for a long time. We order and I pull out my tattered proof of the book. ![]() ![]() Jones, Pomegranate Seed, Roman Fever, All SoulsÕ and Beatrice Palmato) for this second anthology that spans almost the entire period of Edith WhartonÕs writing life. ![]() The proposed listed content (The Moving Finger, The Eyes, Kerfol, Mr. ![]() Peter Haining edited and introduced two anthologies of Edith WhartonÕs ghost stories. notes about Edith Wharton in HainingÕs hand. title with list of contents, handwritten notes, photocopies and other printed information relating to the book. 7 print-out of HainingÕs introduction for ÔThe Demanding DeadÕ first published by Peter Owen, 2007. ![]() About 5 typed versions of HainingÕs introduction for ÔThe Ghost FeelerÕ with pencilled corrections and wordcounts and some duplication, first published by Peter Owen, 1996. The contents contained in a brown envelope with typed address of Peter Haining, Seventh Zenith Limited, Peyton House, Boxford, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 5DS postmarked 7.9.95. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Manhattan Projects, debuting Wednesday from Image Comics and previewed above, takes an alt-fantasy approach to the dawn of the atomic age. "I've been cryptic because I miss the days when we didn't already know at least some of what was going to be inside the books," Hickman said. The series, as Hickman told in an e-mail, asks, "What if the research and development program created to produce the first atomic bomb was actually a front for a series of other, more unusual, projects?" If that seems like a vague pitch, it's because Hickman and Pitarra have stayed tight-lipped about the comic. ![]() Forget the A-bomb: In writer Jonathan Hickman and penciller Nick Pitarra's new comic The Manhattan Projects, the War Department worked on much more bizarre things in its secretive labs. ![]() ![]() By the anguish of Chris- tology, then, I mean the heart always restless and. His website is (For additional interviews, check out the archive at the earlier Spirit Matters podcast. Joseph Sittler and the Preaching Life James M. He serves on the board of the Association for Spiritual Integrity and as an advisor to the National Museum of Religion. and India and has taught online for Spirituality & Practice, Embodied Spirituality, and Hindu University of America. In Our Hearts Are Restless, Richard Lischer-himself the author of two spiritual memoirs-takes readers on a guided tour of the genre, examining the life. ![]() ![]() An Interfaith Minister, spiritual counselor, public speaker and workshop leader, he has appeared at leading venues throughout the U.S. His essays have appeared in numerous publications, and he has authored or coauthored more than 25 books, including Roadsigns on the Spiritual Path the award-winning American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation, How Indian Spirituality Changed the West the seminal biography The Life of Yogananda: The Story of the Yogi Who Became the First Modern Guru and Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times: Powerful Tools to Cultivate Clarity, Calm and Courage. Philip Goldberg has studied the world’s spiritual traditions for more than 50 years, as a practitioner, teacher, and author. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The final gambit paperback release![]() ![]() In this game, there are hearts and lives at stake-and there is nothing more Hawthorne than winning. It soon becomes clear that there is one last puzzle to solve, and Avery and the Hawthorne brothers are drawn into a dangerous game against an unknown and powerful player. ![]() ![]() She knows their secrets and they know her.īut as the clock ticks down to the moment when Avery will become the richest teenager on the planet, trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help-and whose presence in Hawthorne House could change everything. ![]() The Final Gambit is book 3 in the Inheritance Games Series. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. The Inheritance Games The Final Gambit - Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Paperback) 01-09-2022 Author Jennifer Lynn Barnes Date of Publication 01-09-2022 Format. The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes will be released on August 30, 2022. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. In this game, there are hearts and lives at stakeand there is nothing more Hawthorne than winning. OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD OF THE #1 BESTSELLING SERIES!Īvery's fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about. It soon becomes clear that there is one last puzzle to solve, and Avery and the Hawthorne brothers are drawn into a dangerous game against an unknown and powerful player. ![]() |