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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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''A fascinating examination of what "the pursuit of happiness" meant to our nation's Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy. The Declaration of Independence identified "the pursuit of happiness" as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the most influential founders—Benjamin Franklin,...
Author
Publisher
Healing Arts Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"How to change the subconscious patterns underlying chronic conditions"--
"How to change the subconscious patterns underlying chronic conditions ��� Explains how to use prominent emotional and physical symptoms to determine the core existential stress underlying one's chronic condition ��� Introduces five, seminal existential questions correlating with both the five miasms of homeopathy and the Five Phases of Traditional Chinese Medicine...
4) Bird life
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
''The second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill. A lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and two women meet, changing the course of one another's lives. Dinah has come to Japan from New Zealand to teach English and grieve the death of her brother, Michael,...
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Series
Publisher
Avalon Travel, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A latest edition of a visitor's guide to Prague, Vienna, and Budapest outlines adaptable tourist itineraries, shares strategic advice for themed tours, and provides essential insights into local culture, history, and destination landmarks.
"Fairytale castles, neighborhood beer gardens, and peaceful forest hikes: experience the best of Central Europe with Moon Prague, Vienna, & Budapest. Inside you'll find: Flexible itineraries for multiple days...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"At the turn of the twentieth century, in a time of great change, two women--separated by societal status and culture but bound by their expected roles as the daughters of famed statesmen--forged a lifelong friendship. Portia Washington's father Booker T. Washington was formerly enslaved and spent his life championing the empowerment of Black Americans through his school, known popularly as Tuskegee Institute, as well as his political connections....
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"One of the world's preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other cultures From the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond, no longer living in our midst and being involved in all matters of everyday life from the trivial to the dire. Yet the vast majority of cultures throughout human...
8) Abigail
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Gina, the spoiled daughter of a Hungarian general, rails against being sent to boarding school far from Budapest when war breaks out, but finds help in a statue of Abigail and her new "sisters."
''Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szab©đ's books in her native Hungary. Gina is the only child of a general, a widower who has long been happy to spoil his bright...
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