Light Between Worlds, 

Автор: M.L. Stedman
Название: The Light between Oceans
ISBN: 1451681755 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781451681758
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Описание: The years-long "New York Times "bestseller soon to be a major motion picture from Spielberg s Dreamworks that is irresistible seductive with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page ("O, The Oprah Magazine").
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.
Tom, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel insists the baby is a gift from God, and against Tom s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them."

Автор: Pagden Anthony
Название: Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
ISBN: 0812968905 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812968903
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1839.00 р.
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Описание: Spanning two and a half millennia, Anthony Pagden's mesmerizing Worlds at War delves deep into the roots of the "clash of civilizations" between East and West that has always been a battle over ideas. It begins with ancient Greece and its epic fight against the Persian Empire, then sweeps to Rome, which created the modern concepts of citizenship and the rule of law. Pagden dramatizes the birth of Christianity in the East and its use in the West as an instrument of government, setting the stage for what would become, and has remained, a global battle of the secular against the sacred. Islam, at first ridiculed in Christian Europe, drives Pope Urban II to launch the Crusades, which transform the relationship between East and West into one of competing religious beliefs.

Modern times bring a first world war, which among other things seeks to redesign the Muslim world by force. In our own era, Muslims now find themselves in unwelcoming Western societies, while the West seeks to enforce democracy and its own secular values through occupation in the East. Pagden ends on a cautionary note, warning that terrorism and war will continue as long as sacred and secular remain confused in the minds of so many.

Eye-opening and compulsively readable, Worlds at War is a stunning work of history and a triumph of modern scholarship.

Автор: M L Stedman
Название: The Light Between Oceans
ISBN: 0857521012 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857521019
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Название: Between worlds
ISBN: 143312050X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433120503
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: Offers excerpts from novels and short stories by some of the important and established contemporary writers: Rebecca Brown, Ana Castillo, Michelle Cliff Kingston, Ha Jin, and Helena Maria Viramontes. This book is suitable for readers interested in one or more of these authors, and scholars interested in multicultural and transnational literatures.

Автор: Stedman M L
Название: Light Between Oceans
ISBN: 1784161063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161064
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A boat washes up on the shore of a remote lighthouse keeper`s island. It holds a dead man - and a crying baby. The only two islanders, Tom and his wife Izzy, are about to make a devastating decision. They break the rules and follow their hearts. What happens next will break yours.

Автор: Fuller, Amy
Название: Between two worlds
ISBN: 1781881596 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781881590
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Описание: The seventeenth-century Mexican poet, playwright and nun, Sor Juana In s de la Cruz, is best known for her secular works, most notably her damning indictment of male double standards, Hombres necios (Stupid Men). However, her autos sacramentales (allegorical one-act plays on the Eucharist) have received little attention, and have only been discussed individually and out of sequence. By examining them as a collection, in their original order, their meaning and importance are revealed.