Author: Irawati Karve
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125014249
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Irawati Karve studies the humanity of the Mahabharata`s great figures, with all their virtues and their equally numerous faults. Sought out by an inquirer like her, whose view of life is secular, scientific, anthropological in the widest sense, yet appreciative of literary values, social problems of the past and present alike, and human needs and responses in her own time and in antiquity as she identifies them... Seen through her eyes the Mahabharata is more than a work which Hindus look upon as divinely inspired, and venerate. It becomes a record of complex humanity and a mirror to all the faces which we ourselves wear.
Author: Timothy Carter
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0738725072
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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Preparing for the end of the world isn’t new to fourteen-year-old Vincent and his religious family. But he can hardly believe it when he starts seeing elves and pixies—who tell him the world is ending in two days. Can he get his family off Earth before demons wipe out everything?
Author: Irawati Karmarkar Karve
Publisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Study of chief characters in the Mahābhārata.
Author: Aline of Romanones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781508630968
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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End of an Epoch is an autobiographical work that offers the reader the opportunity to know a bit more about the life of the Countess of Romanones and the period of time, from when she arrived to Spain until the death of her husband in 1987. We see how important political figures lived during this era (from Franco to Nixon, Reagan, the Dukes of Windsor or Kissinger), movie stars (Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn, Lauren Bacall...), bullfighters (Luis Miguel Dominguín, Antonio Ordoñez...), flamenco (Lola Flores), and what the social and cultural life was like in general.
Author: Alfred Leslie Rowse
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 323
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Author: Jewel E. Ann
Publisher: Jewel E Ann
ISBN: 9781732089723
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Some lives end unfinished, and some transcend time. After a horrific incident, Swayze finds herself trapped between two lives. Patchy memories and fear for her safety thrust her into a gut-wrenching journey to uncover the truth. Will she let her dreams slip away to seek retribution and find the missing pieces to a puzzle that existed a lifetime ago? "I'm not going to watch you self-destruct. I'm not going to watch you fall in love with another man." Or will she discover the only truth that matters? Epoch pushes the boundaries of what we believe and what we know. It redefines fate and proves that the only thing separating the heart and the soul is an infinite timeline. "I think a part of you will be mine to love in every life."
Author: Georges-Louis Leclerc
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022639557X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon's The Epochs of Nature, originally published as Les Époques de la Nature in 1778, is one of the first great popular science books, a work of style and insight that was devoured by Catherine the Great of Russia and influenced Humboldt, Darwin, Lyell, Vernadsky, and many other renowned scientists. It is the first geological history of the world, stretching from the Earth’s origins to its foreseen end, and though Buffon was limited by the scientific knowledge of his era—the substance of the Earth was not, as he asserts, dragged out of the sun by a giant comet, nor is the sun’s heat generated by tidal forces—many of his deductions appear today as startling insights. And yet, The Epochs of Nature has never before been available in its entirety in English—until now. In seven epochs, Buffon reveals the main features of an evolving Earth, from its hard rock substrate to the sedimentary layers on top, from the minerals and fossils found within these layers to volcanoes, earthquakes, and rises and falls in sea level—and he even touches on age-old mysteries like why the sun shines. In one of many moments of striking scientific prescience, Buffon details evidence for species extinction a generation before Cuvier’s more famous assertion of the phenomenon. His seventh and final epoch does nothing less than offer the first geological glimpse of the idea that humans are altering the very foundations of the Earth—an idea of remarkable resonance as we debate the designation of another epoch: the Anthropocene. Also featuring Buffon’s extensive “Notes Justificatives,” in which he offers further evidence to support his assertions (and discusses vanished monstrous North American beasts—what we know as mastodons—as well as the potential existence of human giants), plus an enlightening introduction by editor and translator Jan Zalasiewicz and historians of science Sverker Sörlin, Libby Robin, and Jacques Grinevald, this extraordinary new translation revives Buffon’s quite literally groundbreaking work for a new age.
Author: John Renaker
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Author: Francis Fukuyama
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416531785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and the Last Man is a modern classic.
Author: Alfred Leslie Rowse
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Languages : en
Pages :
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