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The Nine Numbers of the Cosmos

by Michael Rowan-Robinson ...

How old is the universe? How far away are the galaxies and how fast are they travelling away from us? What do the atoms in our bodies, our very existence, tell us about the history of the universe? Are we in a special place in the universe? What is dark matter and why do astronomers think it pervades the universe? How heavy is the vacuum? How do galaxies form? Michael Rowan-Robinson answers these ... Read more

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How old is the universe? How far away are the galaxies and how fast are they travelling away from us? What do the atoms in our bodies, our very existence, tell us about the history of the universe? Are we in a special place in the universe? What is dark matter and why do astronomers think it pervades the universe? How heavy is the vacuum? How do galaxies form? Michael Rowan-Robinson answers these
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Night Vision

Exploring the Infrared Universe

by Michael Rowan-Robinson ...

Drawing on exciting discoveries of the last forty years, Night Vision explores how infrared astronomy, an essential tool for modern astrophysics and cosmology, helps astronomers reveal our Universe's most fascinating phenomena – from the birth of stars in dense clouds of gas to black holes and distant colliding galaxies and the traffic of interstellar dust from the formation of our Solar System. ... Read more

$31.99 USD

Drawing on exciting discoveries of the last forty years, Night Vision explores how infrared astronomy, an essential tool for modern astrophysics and cosmology, helps astronomers reveal our Universe's most fascinating phenomena – from the birth of stars in dense clouds of gas to black holes and distant colliding galaxies and the traffic of interstellar dust from the formation of our Solar System.
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The Threat Closer to Home

Hugo Chavez and the War Against America

by Douglas Schoen, Michael Rowan ...

A chilling account of Hugo Chávez's shadow war on the United StatesThe American government has shrugged off South American politics for nearly forty years. In the meantime, our neighbor to the south has grown into an unprecedented threat. Hugo Chávez, the current president of Venezuela and a self-proclaimed enemy of the United States, commands what even Osama bin Laden only dreams of -- but few ... Read more

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A chilling account of Hugo Chávez's shadow war on the United StatesThe American government has shrugged off South American politics for nearly forty years. In the meantime, our neighbor to the south has grown into an unprecedented threat. Hugo Chávez, the current president of Venezuela and a self-proclaimed enemy of the United States, commands what even Osama bin Laden only dreams of -- but few
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Prayer

Christian and Muslim Perspectives

by David Marshall, Lucinda Mosher, Rowan Williams, Michael Plekon, Reza Shah-Kazemi, MM Dheen Mohamed, Philip Sheldrake, Caner Dagli, Daniel A. Madigan0, Susan Eastman1, Rkia E. Cornell2, Philip Seddon3, Asma Afsaruddin4, Lucy Gardner5, Ibrahim Mogra6, Timothy Wright7, Timothy Gianotti8 ...

Prayer: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a rich collection of essays, scriptural texts, and personal reflections featuring leading scholars analyzing the meaning and function of prayer within their traditions. Drawn from the 2011 Building Bridges seminar in Doha, Qatar, the essays in this volume explore the devotional practices of each tradition and how these practices are taught and learned. ... Read more

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Prayer: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a rich collection of essays, scriptural texts, and personal reflections featuring leading scholars analyzing the meaning and function of prayer within their traditions. Drawn from the 2011 Building Bridges seminar in Doha, Qatar, the essays in this volume explore the devotional practices of each tradition and how these practices are taught and learned.
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The Two Ways

The Early Christian Vision of Discipleship from the Didache and the Shepherd of Hermas

Series series Plough Spiritual Guides
How did earliest Christians receive and understand the teaching of Jesus and the apostles? These writings, among the earliest used in training new disciples, show a clear, vibrant, practical faith concerned with all aspects of discipleship in daily life—vocation, morality, family life, social justice, the sacraments, prophesy, citizenship, and leadership.For the most part, these writings have ... Read more

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How did earliest Christians receive and understand the teaching of Jesus and the apostles? These writings, among the earliest used in training new disciples, show a clear, vibrant, practical faith concerned with all aspects of discipleship in daily life—vocation, morality, family life, social justice, the sacraments, prophesy, citizenship, and leadership.For the most part, these writings have
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Mortality, Ontology and Ethics in Twentieth-Century Theologies of Person

The Rule of Death

by Dr Alex Michael Trew ...

Series series T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology
This book considers what it means to die.Trew achieves this through the prism of two significant twentieth century thinkers: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Christos Yannaras. In doing so, he continues an esteemed tradition of works considering the theology and philosophy of death, including Karl Rahner's On the Theology of Death and Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. However, Trew is also breaking new ... Read more

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This book considers what it means to die.Trew achieves this through the prism of two significant twentieth century thinkers: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Christos Yannaras. In doing so, he continues an esteemed tradition of works considering the theology and philosophy of death, including Karl Rahner's On the Theology of Death and Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. However, Trew is also breaking new
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Freedom of Conscience in (Post)Soviet Space

Legacies of Michael Bourdeaux and the Keston Archive

by Rowan Williams ...

Series series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Freedom of Conscience in (Post)Soviet Space**, a collection of original essays edited by Julie K. deGraffenried, Michael Long, and Xenia Dennen, is inspired by the work of Michael Bourdeaux, the holdings of the Keston Archive, and continuing questions of freedom of conscience.** Ranging from England to Siberia and moving chronologically from 1917 to the twenty-first century, this book reveals the ... Read more

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Freedom of Conscience in (Post)Soviet Space**, a collection of original essays edited by Julie K. deGraffenried, Michael Long, and Xenia Dennen, is inspired by the work of Michael Bourdeaux, the holdings of the Keston Archive, and continuing questions of freedom of conscience.** Ranging from England to Siberia and moving chronologically from 1917 to the twenty-first century, this book reveals the
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Permaculture Gardening

Roots of Resilience (Designing Abundant, Self-Sustaining Gardens with Nature as Your Guide)

by Daniel Hartwood ...

Narrated by Michael Rowan ...

Unabridged

10 hours 50 min

Discover the joy of permaculture gardening and farming and start your journey to sustainable, eco-friendly living with this comprehensive guidebook on permaculture! You may have heard of the news or experienced it in real-time, but there’s a global crisis concerning the state of our planet. Concerned, you thought of sustainable ways to help nature recover, but your efforts end up in vain. The good ... Read more

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Discover the joy of permaculture gardening and farming and start your journey to sustainable, eco-friendly living with this comprehensive guidebook on permaculture! You may have heard of the news or experienced it in real-time, but there’s a global crisis concerning the state of our planet. Concerned, you thought of sustainable ways to help nature recover, but your efforts end up in vain. The good
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Ploughshares Spring 2021 Guest-edited by Laura van den Berg

by Laura van den Berg, Kaveh Akbar, Aldo Amparán, Eloisa Amezcua, Marianne Boruch, nicole v basta, Gabrielle Bates, Paola Bruni, Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Michael Collier, Dana Curtis, Nancy Chen Long, Gustavo Firmat, April Eliza Goldman, Michele Herman, Sarah Mackey Kirby, Daniel Lawless, Anni Liu, Chloe Martinez, Matthew Minicucci, Alicia Mountain, André Naffis-Sahely, Carl Phillips, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Michael Shewmaker, Ralph Sneeden, R.A. Villanueva, Cynthia Williams, Wendy Xu, Maria Zoccola, Shaleigh Kwok, 'Pemi Aguda, Venita Blackburn, Fernando A. Flores, Tania James, Fajer Alexander Khansa, Amy Lin, Claire Luchette, Zora Mai Quỳnh, Helen Phillips, Fortunato Salazar, Seth Wang, Ruth Hoberman ...

The Spring 2021 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows. ... Read more

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The Spring 2021 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.
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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Thirty ground-breaking men and women of the early English nation

by Various ...

Narrated by Barbara Yorke, David Almond, Full Cast, Michael Wood, Rowan Williams, Seamus Heaney ...

Unabridged

7 hours 7 min

The half millennium between the creation of the English nation in around 550 and the Norman Conquest in 1066 was a formative one. This groundbreaking series rediscovers the Anglo-Saxons through vivid portraits of thirty incredible men and women, as told by their contemporary admirers.Nobel prize-winner Seamus Heaney discusses the Beowulf bard; former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams focuses ... Read more

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The half millennium between the creation of the English nation in around 550 and the Norman Conquest in 1066 was a formative one. This groundbreaking series rediscovers the Anglo-Saxons through vivid portraits of thirty incredible men and women, as told by their contemporary admirers.Nobel prize-winner Seamus Heaney discusses the Beowulf bard; former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams focuses
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Blue Beard

by Charles Perrault ...

Narrated by Rowan Michaels, Rowan Michaels ...

Unabridged

14 min

Bluebeard is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault. The tale tells the story of a violent nobleman in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of one wife to avoid the fate of her predecessors. ... Read more

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Bluebeard is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault. The tale tells the story of a violent nobleman in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of one wife to avoid the fate of her predecessors.
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Blue Beard

by Charles Perrault ...

Narrated by Rowan Michaels ...

Unabridged

14 min

Bluebeard is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault. The tale tells the story of a violent nobleman in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of one wife to avoid the fate of her predecessors. "Once upon a time there was a man who had fine houses, both in town and country, a deal of silver and gold plate, carved furniture, and ... Read more

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Bluebeard is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault. The tale tells the story of a violent nobleman in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of one wife to avoid the fate of her predecessors. "Once upon a time there was a man who had fine houses, both in town and country, a deal of silver and gold plate, carved furniture, and
... Read more

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