Автор: Lesley Adkins Название: Empires of the Plain ISBN: 0007129009 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007129003 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Цена: 1847.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world's earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilizations. This is the exciting, true adventure story of Henry Rawlinson, a fearless soldier, sportsman and explorer. From 1827 he spent twenty-five years in India, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. A brilliant linguist, fascinated by history, he became obsessed with cuneiform, the world's earliest writing. An immense inscription on a sheer rock face at Bisitun in Iran was the key to understanding the many cuneiform scripts and languages, and only Rawlinson had the skills to achieve the perilous ascent and copy the monument. In her gripping account, Lesley Adkins relates how Rawlinson triumphed in deciphering the lost languages of Persia and Babylonia, overcoming his bitter rival, Edward Hincks. While Rawlinson was based at Baghdad, incredible palaces with whole libraries of cuneiform clay tablets were unearthed in the ancient mounds of Mesopotamia, from Nineveh to Babylon--the great flood plain of the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers that had been fought over by so many powerful empires. His decipherment of the inscriptions resurrected these lost civilisations, revealing fascinating details of everyday life and forgotten historical events. By proving to the astonished Victorian public that people and places in the Old Testament really existed, Rawlinson assured his own place in history.
Автор: Adkins Mary Название: When You Read This ISBN: 1473673348 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473673342 Издательство: Hodder Рейтинг: Цена: 1661.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: WHEN YOU READ THIS is a warm, heart-breaker of a novel, and just as you think you might be on the verge of tears, it will tip you over into laughter instead.
Автор: Adkins Mary Название: Privilege ISBN: 0062887084 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062887085 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 2925.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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From the beloved author of When You Read This, a smart, sharply observed novel about gender and class on a contemporary Southern college campus in the spirit of The Female Persuasion and Prep.
Carter University: "The Harvard of the South."
Annie Stoddard was the smartest girl in her small public high school in Georgia, but now that she's at Carter, it feels like she's got "Scholarship Student" written on her forehead.
Bea Powers put aside misgivings about attending college in the South as a biracial student to take part in Carter's Justice Scholars program. But even within that rarefied circle of people trying to change the world, it seems everyone has a different idea of what justice is.
Stayja York goes to Carter every day, too, but she isn't a student. She works at the Coffee Bean, doling out almond milk lattes to entitled co-eds, while trying to put out fires on the home front and save for her own education.
Their three lives intersect unexpectedly when Annie accuses fourth-year student Tyler Brand of sexual assault. Once Bea is assigned as Tyler's student advocate, the girls find themselves on opposite sides as battle lines are drawn across the picture-perfect campus--and Stayja finds herself invested in the case's outcome, too.
Told through the viewpoints of Annie, Bea, and Stayja, Privilege is a bracingly clear-eyed look at today's campus politics, and a riveting story of three young women making their way in a world not built for them.
Автор: Adkins Mary Название: When You Read This ISBN: 0062834681 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062834683 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1775.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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For fans of Maria Semple and Rainbow Rowell, a comedy-drama for the digital age: an epistolary debut novel about the ties that bind and break our hearts.
Iris Massey is gone. But she's left something behind.
For four years, Iris Massey worked side by side with PR maven Smith Simonyi, helping clients perfect their brands. But Iris has died, taken by terminal illness at only thirty-three. Adrift without his friend and colleague, Smith is surprised to discover that in her last six months, Iris created a blog filled with sharp and often funny musings on the end of a life not quite fulfilled. She also made one final request: for Smith to get her posts published as a book. With the help of his charmingly eager, if overbearingly forthright, new intern Carl, Smith tackles the task of fulfilling Iris's last wish.
Before he can do so, though, he must get the approval of Iris' big sister Jade, an haute cuisine chef who's been knocked sideways by her loss. Each carrying their own baggage, Smith and Jade end up on a collision course with their own unresolved pasts and with each other.
Told in a series of e-mails, blog posts, online therapy submissions, text messages, legal correspondence, home-rental bookings, and other snippets of our virtual lives, When You Read This is a deft, captivating romantic comedy--funny, tragic, surprising, and bittersweet--that candidly reveals how we find new beginnings after loss.
--Minneapolis Star Tribune
Автор: Adkins Jim Название: Unsolved Mysteries in World History ISBN: 154083512X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781540835123 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1716.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Adkins Vickie Faulkner Название: I Laughed Until I Cried: The Memoir of an Adopted Child ISBN: 153207414X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781532074141 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1930.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: I Laughed Until I Cried chronicles my terrific and tumultuous journey from my southern birth through adulthood. Nearby Memphis, TN was the home of baby broker Georgia Tann and her illegal orphanage. Georgia, "The Mother of Adoption in the United States" (and what a Mother she was ) stole and sold over 5000 children between the 1920's and the 1950's. She became wealthy. Her wealth and power inspired ongoing "copycat" crimes. My inspired father decided to cash me in for a quick buck. He always could give a convincing rendition of how he "never signed any adoption papers." My birth mother never gave up on the idea of reuniting her family. Both parents faded in and out of my life leaving behind mixed feelings, a multitude of unanswered questions, and no idea how to cope with growing up in what felt like prison with Mommie Dearest as the warden.
Автор: Adkins Jan Batiste Название: African Americans of San Jose and Santa Clara County ISBN: 1540237214 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781540237217 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4413.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Adkins Sierra Название: Sustaining Ecosystems in a Changing World ISBN: 1682867641 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682867648 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 23655.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A healthy ecosystem is vital for the survival of all life on Earth. Human activities have a significant impact across all ecosystems. Due to the rise in human population and per capita consumption, the problems of environmental pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change are increasingly being observed. Terrestrial ecosystems face threats that include deforestation, air pollution and soil degradation. Overfishing, microplastics pollution, encroachment into coastal areas, etc. cause severe damage to the aquatic ecosystem. The primary objective of ecosystem management is the sustainable and ethical use of natural resources. Adaptive management, natural resource management, strategic management, and command and control management are few approaches to effective ecosystem management, both at a local and landscape level. This book includes some of the vital pieces of work being conducted across the world, on various topics related to sustainable ecosystems. It will serve as an elaborate reference text for environmentalists, ecologists, researchers and students engaged in this area of study.
Автор: Adkins Jan Batiste Название: African Americans of Monterey County ISBN: 1531677150 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531677152 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4413.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Adkins Vickie Faulkner Название: I Laughed Until I Cried: The Memoir of an Adopted Child ISBN: 1532074891 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781532074899 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3309.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: I Laughed Until I Cried chronicles my terrific and tumultuous journey from my southern birth through adulthood. Nearby Memphis, TN was the home of baby broker Georgia Tann and her illegal orphanage. Georgia, "The Mother of Adoption in the United States" (and what a Mother she was ) stole and sold over 5000 children between the 1920's and the 1950's. She became wealthy. Her wealth and power inspired ongoing "copycat" crimes. My inspired father decided to cash me in for a quick buck. He always could give a convincing rendition of how he "never signed any adoption papers." My birth mother never gave up on the idea of reuniting her family. Both parents faded in and out of my life leaving behind mixed feelings, a multitude of unanswered questions, and no idea how to cope with growing up in what felt like prison with Mommie Dearest as the warden.
Автор: Adkins Sierra Название: Ecosystems: Functions, Sustainability and Management ISBN: 1641161930 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781641161930 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 16959.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Richard Bourne, Imogen Adkins Название: A New Introduction to Theology: Embodiment, Experience and Encounter ISBN: 0567666670 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780567666673 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 3800.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Encountering theology for the first time is exciting, but it can also be daunting. Some struggle to connect with doctrinal discussion they perceive to be abstract or abstruse. Others may find the scope of theology, and the connections between different theological issues, dizzying. In order to address these difficulties and sustain initial excitement A New Introduction to Theology offers a range of accessible, practical, experiential and interactive encounters with the major elements of academic Christian theology. The book’s guiding motif is the claim that theology is full-bodied thought. The phrase “full-bodied” shows both the richness of the experience of theology, and its nature as a thoroughly embodied encounter with ways of knowing God and God’s ways with the world. The book therefore draws upon a range of innovative and interdisciplinary elements found in contemporary theology: theology through the arts, sexuality and the body, the nature of the church’s everyday life (from sacraments to mission), mystical theology and spirituality, political action and ecology, among others. Working imaginatively with the five senses (seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling), loving and resting, each chapter provides a range of activities, guided discussions and reflections on key theological texts, authors and issues. The book is adaptable for individual reflection, classroom work, or flexible and distributed learning.
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