5/11/2023 0 Comments Dune herbert![]() ![]() He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human he might be a messiah. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. ![]() The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Dune - Maud'Dib - Appendix I: Ecology of Dune - Appendix II: Religion of Dune - Appendix III: Report on Bene Gessereit motives and pruposes - Appendix IV:Almanak en-Ashraf (selected excerpts of the Noble Houses) - Terminilogy of the Imperium - Map ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Heart of Oak by M. Kei![]() ![]() A pawn in the war for Portuguese independence, he is marked for revenge by the Spanish, and comes perilously close to losing both his life and ship. Peter Thorton's divided loyalties are tested in the crucibles of love and war. "A swashbuckling tale full of colour, adventure and romance - a good read!"-Gerry Burnie, Gerry B's Book ReviewsLt. Discarded by friends and lovers, his health wrecked, and at the nadir of his career, he discovers what really matters and must make a choice that will seal his fate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today. ![]() Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Only available as part of our 3 for £33 Penguin Clothbound Classics collection. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. ![]() Sherlock Holmes - The Complete Novel Collection: . In The Hound of the Baskervilles Conan Doyle uncharacteristically emphasized the eerie setting and mysterious atmosphere rather than the hero’s deductive ingenuity. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. In 'Silver Blaze' the pair investigate the disappearance of a racehorse and the violent murder of its trainer, while in 'The Final Problem' Holmes at last comes face to face with his nemesis, the diabolical Professor Moriarty - 'the Napoleon of crime'. Buy Sherlock Holmes - The Complete Novel Collection by Doyle, Arthur Conan from Amazons Fiction Books Store. With his devoted amanuensis, Dr Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke filled rooms in Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue and evil in such cases as 'The Speckled Band', in which a terrified woman begs their help in solving the mystery surrounding her sister's death, or 'A Scandal in Bohemia', which portrays a European king blackmailed by his mistress. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. This collection includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary Sherlock Holmes one of fiction's most popular creations. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Eternals gaiman romita![]() Since their appearance, the Eternals have had several of their own series, in addition to crossing into other titles, such as Thor and X-Men. Due to their virtual immortality, Eternals have largely secluded themselves from humans, with their god-like status forming the basis of various mythological figures around the world. Their primary adversaries are the Deviants, who share a similar origin and pose a regular threat to humanity. ![]() In the Marvel Universe, the Eternals are an offshoot of humanity known as Homo immortalis which were created one million years ago by the enigmatic alien Celestials to defend Earth with their superhuman powers and abilities. They were created by Jack Kirby, making their first appearance in The Eternals #1 (July 1976). ![]() The Eternals are a fictional race of humanoids appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:britaindictators0000seto:epub:ffe98c34-3022-416f-a696-d6394fa5e531 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier britaindictators0000seto Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2vzh7krfbk Invoice 1652 Ocr tesseract 5.1.0-1-ge935 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1300390 Page_number_confidence 93.85 Pages 490 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220722231141 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 186 Scandate 20220722071343 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Tts_version 5. ![]() ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 00:00:51 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40611917 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Seton-Watson, 1938, The University press edition, in English Britain and the dictators (1938 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments A man name ove book![]() ![]() You’ll also want to move to Scandinavia, where everything’s cuter.” “A charming debut…You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll feel new sympathy for the curmudgeons in your life. “If there was an award for ‘Most Charming Book of the Year,’ this first novel by a Swedish blogger-turned-overnight-sensation would win hands down” ( Booklist, starred review). All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents’ association to their very foundations.įredrik Backman’s beloved first novel about the angry old man next door is a thoughtful exploration of the profound impact one life has on countless others. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove’s mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?īehind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. ![]() He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. He’s a curmudgeon-the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. ![]() #1 New York Times bestseller-more than 3 million copies sold! Now a major motion picture A Man Called Otto starring Tom Hanks! ![]() ![]() ![]() Evans came to prominence in 2000 as a key witness for the defense team in the David Irving trial in London, where he convincingly demonstrated the systematic distortions, adding up to Holocaust denial, in Irving’s work.Ĭlearly, Evans has little patience for arguments tending to relativize Nazi crimes, whether advanced by revisionist historians or by slippery German politicians. The time is therefore opportune for someone once again to set the record straight about Nazi Germany This, indeed, appears to have been the aim of Richard Evans, a professor of history at Cambridge who has just released the first of three projected volumes on the Third Reich. ![]() Pushed along by sensational books on subjects like the postwar expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe, this unattractive revisionism burst into the open during the lead-up to the Iraq war, when some German intellectuals and political figures began conflating their opposition to Bush-administration policy with the supposed victimization of their own country by Allied bombing during World War II. In the last several years, a new version of 20th-century history has been gathering momentum in Germany one in which Germans at last receive their own share of the contemporary world’s most precious moral commodity: victimhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() A street rat-turned-soldier-turned-spy, there isn't much that scares Wicklow. Wicklow doesn't understand why, or why Rhoades's very presence makes him tremble. The last thing he needs with him is the pampered rich man who runs his team, yet despite the danger, Alexander Rhoades refuses to leave his side. While on one of these missions, secret agent Wicklow Doyle's safehouse is compromised and he's on the run in enemy-controlled Charleston. With an eye to not just winning the war, but to the future of the country, Alexander Rhoades convinces the Union government to let him run a team of remarkable spies as he pleases, mostly to plant brand-new electro-radio technology in Southern cities to aid the work of Northern agents. ![]() Two years into the Civil War, it is a bloody stalemate-exactly the sort of situation for a brilliant, ruthless visionary with ideas on modernizing spycraft to take advantage of. ![]() ![]() She does this without the overtones of preaching, but herself as a seeker, echoing - only clearer and stronger - our own small still voice. The setting of her book is the sea shore the time, a brief vacation. ![]() With radiant lucidity she makes visible again the values of the inner life, without which there is no true fulfillment. 'Anne Morrow Lindbergh's reflections on a woman's life were matured in active years of family living and stimulated by conversations with men and women who experience the same problems and feel the same need for assessing the true values of life. In a blend of complete sincerity and delicacy, so uniquely her own, Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares with the reader her awareness of the many frustrating elements we face today: the restlessness, the unending pressures and demands, the denial of leisure and silence, the threat to inner peace and integration, the uneasy balance of the opposites, man and woman. And the shells become symbols here for the various aspects of life she is contemplating. ![]() As the sea tosses up its gifts - shells rare and perfect - so the mind, left to its ponderings, brings up its own treasures of the deep. The setting of her book is the sea shore the time, a brief vacation which had lifted her from the distractions of everyday existence into the sphere of meditation. ![]() "Anne Morrow Lindbergh's reflections on a woman's life were matured in active years of family living and stimulated by conversations with men and women who experience the same problems and feel the same need for assessing the true values of life. ![]() |