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  Schindler's Ark by Thomas...

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  Unlock the more straightforward side of Schindler's Ark with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, which tells the true story of the actions of the German businessman Oskar Schindler during the Holocaust. When the Nazis occupied Poland during the Second World War, the country's Jews were first forced into ghettos, then deported to concentration camps where few survived. However, Schindler offered hope to thousands of Polish Jews by employing them in his factories, at considerable personal risk, to save them from deportation and almost certain death. The Australian author Thomas Keneally brings his story to life in this thrilling novel, which won the 1982 Man Booker Prize and was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List.Find out everything you need to know about Schindler's Ark in a fraction of the time!This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you:• A complete plot summary• Character studies• Key themes and symbols• Questions for further reflectionWhy choose BrightSummaries.com?Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!

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  Michael Davitt - From the Gaelic...

  John Devoy

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  Tells the story of a collaboration between two giants of late c19th Irish nationalism: John Devoy and Michael Davitt.

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  Top 25 Swahili Questions You...

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  **This Audiobook includes a bonus conversation cheat sheet inside**
   
  Are you learning Swahili? Do you want to start speaking with confidence and have real conversations? Then the “Top 25 Swahili Questions You Need to Know!” Audiobook is perfect for you.
   
  By the end of the book, you’ll master the most common phrases and questions used in everyday conversations. You’ll even be able to hold basic conversations. And if you’re a complete beginner, but want to start speaking, this audiobook is the first step.
   
  What will you learn? You’ll learn how to ask and answer the most common questions like... “What’s your name? Where are you from? How old are you? How are you?” and many more. Yes, these are the same exact questions you use and hear in everyday conversations. In every lesson, our professional, bilingual teachers explain and translate every word so that you understand it all.
   
  What makes this audiobook so powerful?• Master must-know Swahili conversational questions and phrases used in daily life• Lessons are fast and concise - each is only 8 minutes long• Get slowed down pronunciation to help you understand every word• Learn Cultural Insights, which are provided in every lesson• You can even read along with lesson notes to learn 2x as fast• Best of all, you’ll have fun with our relaxed approach to learning Swahili
   
  Here’s what you get:• 25 Lessons (2 hours and 50 minutes in total)• 85+ Pages of Lesson Notes to read along with • In-lesson Prompts and exercises to help you practice speaking• Bonus “Around Town” Conversation Cheat Sheet: Learn how to get around and ask for directions, plus learn the vocab for common locations around the town.
   
  
   
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  Fire and Light - How the...

  James MacGregor Burns

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  The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explores history’s most daring and transformational intellectual movement, the European and American Enlightenment. 
   
  In this engaging, provocative history, James MacGregor Burns illuminates the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World. They transformed thought, overturned governments, and inspired visionary political experiments. Fire and Light brings to life the revolutionary leaders who, armed with a new sense of human possibility, created the modern world. Burns traces the origins of a distinctive American Enlightenment to men like Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, and their early encounters with incendiary European ideas about liberty and equality. It was these thinker-activists who framed the United States as a grand and continuing experiment in Enlightenment principles. 
   
  Today the same principles have taken on new urgency around the world: in the turmoil of the Arab world, in the former Soviet Union, and in China, as well as in the United States itself. What should a nation be? What should citizens expect from their government? Who should lead, and how can leadership be made both effective and accountable? What is happiness, and what can the state contribute to it? Burns’s exploration of the ideals and arguments that formed the bedrock of our modern world shines a new light on these ever-important questions. 
   
  Praise for Fire and Light 
   
  “With this profound and magnificent book, Burns takes us into the fire’s center. . . . Essential for deciphering the challenges of the world we will live in tomorrow.” —Michael Beschloss, New York Times–bestselling author of Presidential Courage 
   
  “James MacGregor Burns is a national treasure, and Fire and Light is the elegiac capstone to a career devoted to understanding the seminal ideas that made America—for better and for worse—what it is.” —Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author of Revolutionary Summer 
   
  “[A] captivating tale. . . . Briskly and beautifully told. . . . Superb.” —Publishers Weekly

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  Age of Discovery - Navigating...

  Ian Goldin, Chris Kutarna

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  A study of how to address our contemporary renaissance by examining similarities with the original Renaissance. 
   
  The present is a contest between the bright and dark sides of discovery. To avoid being torn apart by its stresses, we need to recognize the fact—and gain courage and wisdom from the past. Age of Discovery shows how. 
   
  Now is the best moment in history to be alive, but we have never felt more anxious or divided. Human health, aggregate wealth and education are flourishing. Scientific discovery is racing forward. But the same global flows of trade, capital, people and ideas that make gains possible for some people deliver big losses to others—and make us all more vulnerable to one another. 
   
  Business and science are working giant revolutions upon our societies, but our politics and institutions evolve at a much slower pace. That’s why, in a moment when everyone ought to be celebrating giant global gains, many of us are righteously angry at being left out and stressed about where we’re headed. 
   
  To make sense of present shocks, we need to step back and recognize: we’ve been here before. The first Renaissance, the time of Columbus, Copernicus, Gutenberg and others, likewise redrew all maps of the world, democratized communication and sparked a flourishing of creative achievement. But their world also grappled with the same dark side of rapid change: social division, political extremism, insecurity, pandemics and other unintended consequences of discovery. 
   
  Now is the second Renaissance. We can still flourish—if we learn from the first. 
   
  Praise for Age of Discovery 
   
  “A bold mega-analysis of global education, health, prosperity and technology . . . incisive and rich in context and granularity.” —Nature 
   
  “Essential reading to navigate the waves of innovation we face today.” —Garry Kasparov, 13th World Chess Champion and Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation

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  Poetry in Balance - The...

  Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II

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  This fifth and final volume of The Orloj is a compilation of all poems, essays, and fables of the first four books. A precious craft of artful verses that are straight forward, easy to understand. Through art that speaks to all, the author seeks to elicit emotions while provoking reflection. With verses that jump with ease out of the pages of the book, enrapturing anyone's heart, Cromwell-Smilh tackles a full circle of life with subjects like Perseverance, Grit, Kindness, Discipline, Impetus, Tenacity, Greatness, etc. 
   ... Through free-verse poetry ... over 60 thought-provoking poems and reflections ... addressing such concepts as Letting go of the past, finding Inspiration, dealing with a loss, and ultimately living a happy, blissful life ... In choosing to explore universal concerns ... Cromwell-Smith II strikes an ideal balance ...  
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