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Download or read book Saints (Collins Gem) written by Collins and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Gem provides a guide to the lives of the most popular saints – who they were, how they became saints and for whom they have a particular importance.
Book Synopsis Fact File (Collins Gem) by : Elaine Henderson
Download or read book Fact File (Collins Gem) written by Elaine Henderson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handy, quick-reference guide to thousands of difficult-to-remember or difficult-to-find facts, now in ebook format.
Book Synopsis Mushrooms (Collins Gem) by : Patrick Harding
Download or read book Mushrooms (Collins Gem) written by Patrick Harding and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideal portable companion, the world-renowned Collins Gem series returns with a fresh new look and updated material.
Book Synopsis Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? by : Robert Bartlett
Download or read book Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? written by Robert Bartlett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-10 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, authoritative, and entertaining history of the Christian cult of the saints from its origin to the Reformation From its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints—the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days of the Christian martyrs to the Protestant Reformation. Robert Bartlett examines all of the most important aspects of the saints—including miracles, relics, pilgrimages, shrines, and the saints' role in the calendar, literature, and art. The book explores the central role played by the bodies and body parts of saints, and the special treatment these relics received. From the routes, dangers, and rewards of pilgrimage, to the saints' impact on everyday life, Bartlett's account is an unmatched examination of an important and intriguing part of the religious life of the past—as well as the present.
Download or read book Spiders written by Paul Hillyard and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handy, pocket-sized guide to 220 of the world's spiders, Gem Spiders is the perfect introduction to these 'creepy-crawlies'
Download or read book John Craxton written by Ian Collins and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uplifting and engaging, this story recounts the life and career of a rebellious 20th-century British artist Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton (1922–2009) has been described as a Neo-Romantic, but he called himself a “kind of Arcadian”. His early art was influenced by Blake, Palmer, Miró, and Picasso. After achieving a dream of moving to Greece, his work evolved as a personal response to Byzantine mosaics, El Greco, and the art of Greek life. This book tells his adventurous story for the first time. At turns exciting, funny, and poignant, the saga is enlivened by Craxton’s ebullient pictures. Ian Collins expands our understanding of the artist greatly—including an in-depth exploration of the storied, complicated friendship between Craxton and Lucian Freud, drawing on letters and memories that Craxton wanted to remain private until after his death.
Book Synopsis Collins Gem Irish First Names by : Julia Cresswell
Download or read book Collins Gem Irish First Names written by Julia Cresswell and published by Collins Celtic. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A-to-Z listing of over 200 Irish first names which includes explanations of their origins and meanings. The book includes names derived from the Irish language, Anglicized versions of Irish names and Irish names popular overseas, particularly in the USA and Australia.
Book Synopsis All the Light We Cannot See by : Anthony Doerr
Download or read book All the Light We Cannot See written by Anthony Doerr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Download or read book Saints written by Robin Blake and published by Collins. This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to saints contains brief biographies, saints' days and lists of patron saints as well as a general introduction to how someone becomes a saint and who were the first saints.
Book Synopsis Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches by : John Betjeman
Download or read book Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Walking With The Saints by : Cecilia Baker
Download or read book Walking With The Saints written by Cecilia Baker and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 8 walks following the Pilgrims Routes of Britain. Giving history and extra information about some of our best known ancient routeways. A wonderful companion to these historical and spiritual walkways. Take a person, a time and a place: say Canterbury in 597, St Augustine has just arrived and sets off walking. What is he thinking? How does he find his way across the country? What would he find when he arrived at the various places along the route? Using historical stories and vignettes Cecilia Baker has gathered together to follow his, and other, footsteps we can know him and his world a little better. We can follow his route today but thankfully not have to worry about wild boars, nor highway robbery (hopefully!), nor indeed of falling foul of the monarch or his henchmen as was very much a possibility in the past. England is criss-crossed by a myriad of ancient routes that are being way-marked and walked for the first time in, often, hundreds of years, named after people who have gently faded into history. Through this book you can explore the rich heritage of England while enjoying these ancient paths. You will learn about these routes both from a geographical and historical, but also from a spiritual point of view. Walking has never been more popular both to make us healthier and to enjoy the quality of life that we now crave. We are able to enjoy this pastime today in a way that was never possible in more ancient times. So put on comfortable shoes and take a raincoat, this is Britain after all, and start walking in the footsteps of our ancient ancestors.
Book Synopsis Saint Catherine Labouré of the Miraculous Medal by : Fr. Joseph I. Dirvin
Download or read book Saint Catherine Labouré of the Miraculous Medal written by Fr. Joseph I. Dirvin and published by TAN Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excellent, popular, definitive life of the saint to whom the Medal was given by Our Lady. Tells both her story and that of the Miraculous Medal apparitions. 61 pictures, including photographs of St. Catherine's incorrupt body.
Book Synopsis The Credential Society by : Randall Collins
Download or read book The Credential Society written by Randall Collins and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of inequality. Controversial at the time, Randall Collins’s claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but rather created a cycle of credential inflation, has proven remarkably prescient. Collins shows how credential inflation stymies mass education’s promises of upward mobility. An unacknowledged spiral of the rising production of credentials and job requirements was brought about by the expansion of high school and then undergraduate education, with consequences including grade inflation, rising educational costs, and misleading job promises dangled by for-profit schools. Collins examines medicine, law, and engineering to show the ways in which credentialing closed these high-status professions to new arrivals. In an era marked by the devaluation of high school diplomas, outcry about the value of expensive undergraduate degrees, and the proliferation of new professional degrees like the MBA, The Credential Society has more than stood the test of time. In a new preface, Collins discusses recent developments, debunks claims that credentialization is driven by technological change, and points to alternative pathways for the future of education.
Book Synopsis Saint John in the Golden Age of Postcards: 1900-1915 by : Terry R. J. Keleher
Download or read book Saint John in the Golden Age of Postcards: 1900-1915 written by Terry R. J. Keleher and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1900 through 1915, a golden age of postcard production and use occurred in North America. These images were collected and saved over the years, creating a vast archive of local history. These postcards offer a very nuanced and thorough representation of what life was like in Saint John during the early years of the twentieth century, and it is with great surprise that readers will discover the wealth of information revealed through this medium.
Book Synopsis Reforming Saints by : David J. Collins
Download or read book Reforming Saints written by David J. Collins and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Reforming Saints' is an investigation of how and why early German humanists were attracted to composing saints' lives in the half century preceding the Reformation. The book focuses on 36 Latin lives written between 1470 and 1520.
Book Synopsis Saint Augustine on the Resurrection of Christ by : Gerald O'Collins
Download or read book Saint Augustine on the Resurrection of Christ written by Gerald O'Collins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite an enormous amount of literature on St Augustine of Hippo, this work provides the first examination of what he taught about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Augustine expounded Christ's resurrection in his sermons, letters, Answer to Faustus the Manichean, the City of God, Expositions of the Psalms, and the Trinity. Saint Augustine on the Resurrection of Christ: Teaching, Rhetoric, and Reception explores what Augustine held about the centrality of Christ's resurrection from the dead, the agency of Christ's resurrection, and the nature of his risen existence. Leading scholar, Gerald O'Collins, investigates the impact of his resurrection on others and his mediatory role as the risen High Priest. O'Collins then unpicks Augustine's rhetorical justification for the resurrection of Christ: evidence from creation, human history, and the desires of all human beings. This groundbreaking study illustrates the enduring significance of Augustine's teaching on and apologetic for the resurrection, and updates, augments, and corrects what Augustine held.
Book Synopsis The British National Bibliography by : Arthur James Wells
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
