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  Benedict of Nursia: A short...

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  Benedict of Nursia, church teacher, saint and founder of the Benedictine order: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

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  Shinto of Ancient Japan - Shinto...

  Kelly Mass

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  The Shinto religion is a mystery to many. There is no real founder, there are many gods and deities that are worshipped, and something about spiritualism and spirits in nature that most people can’t quite put their finger on. 
    
  Today, many of those confusions will be cleared up, as you will explore the Shinto faith and all its most important rituals, gods and goddesses, symbolism, etc. 
    
  A long list of divine beings and their purpose and tasks will be revealed, some background stories about the most famous once, and the history and legends of Japan’s gigantic mountain: Mount Fuji. 
    
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  Havana Travel Guide: Cuba Libre!...

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  Experience the authentic Cuba! 
  Go to the essence of the place: The sights, smells, tastes and sounds that make Havana unique. 
  “Havana Travel Guide” by Carlos Fernando Alvarez takes readers to the most charming streets of the city, presenting the best kept jewels in every corner. A detailed insight into the fast-evolving worlds of food, wine, pastry, coffee, beer, fashion, design, beautiful weather, beaches, rich history and music. Cuba offers you some of the best things that you could ever ask for. 
  Havana is a unique city in its own right, with its artistic influxes, and a unique romantic glamor of Spanish colonial influence that makes it incomparable with other Caribbean cities. Take a tour through the beautiful landscapes, the caves and powdery white sands of the Havana beaches. Drive through the city in a 50s style vintage car on a Havana Day tour. Take a picturesque walk on one of the many places listed in this guide, hang out on 23rd Street and other amazing locations. Find out the best bars to hang out or just enjoy the beautiful sunset in the city. 
  Some of the things you’ll find in this guide are;Things to do and places to goHavana day toursTop attractionsFinding accommodationHavana restaurants and PaladaresMuseumsSelection of the best beaches in Havana 
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  J Robert Oppenheimer: The Life...

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  Tens of millions died during World War II as the warring powers raced to create the best fighter planes, tanks, and guns, and eventually that race extended to bombs which carried enough power to destroy civilization itself. While the war raged in Europe and the Pacific, a dream team of Nobel Laureates was working on the Manhattan Project in America, a program kept so secret that Vice President Harry Truman didn’t know about it until he took the presidency after FDR’s death in April 1945.  
  The pursuit of nuclear weapons moved the scientist nearer to the role of combatant, placing special responsibilities on the scientific community to make critical moral decisions. However, as they developed atomic weapons, they could at the same time only warn military powers of their use. Advocates for nuclear power as a civilian energy resource but expressing misgivings about nuclear war put them at odds with uninformed branches of the military. The American government and the population at large, who possessed little understanding of the perilous science behind the technology, brought about charges of unpatriotic behavior for such misgivings. Scientists, meanwhile, were caught between the excitement of creating a new paradigm, and the dread of their eventual use.  
  The American war effort against the Japanese and Germans also included denying either one the use of a practical nuclear weapon. Physics was in its highest stage of advancement in Europe during this time, while J. Robert Oppenheimer emerged as an extraordinary scientific mind in the United States. Despite requiring the work of thousands of scientists and assistants in fashioning the weapon that eventually came to pass, Oppenheimer alone has been become renowned as the “father of the atomic bomb” due to his leadership of the Manhattan Project.

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  Goldfinch by Donna Tartt The...

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  Unlock the more straightforward side of The Goldfinch with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
  This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, which follows Theo Decker as he comes to terms with the death of his mother in a terrorist attack and grapples with his guilt over the famous painting he stole in the confusion following the attack. As he grows up, he works in an antique store, falls in love, befriends the cosmopolitan Boris, and gradually becomes drawn into the criminal underworld. The Goldfinch is Donna Tartt's third novel, after The Secret History in 1992 and The Little Friend in 2002. It quickly became an international bestseller and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction in 2014.
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  Dead Men Telling Tales -...

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  Dead Men Telling Tales is an original account of the lasting cultural impact made by the autobiographies of Napoleonic soldiers over the course of the nineteenth century. Focusing on nearly three hundred military memoirs published by British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese veterans of the Peninsular War (1808–1814), Matilda Greig charts the histories of these books over the course of a hundred years, around Europe and the Atlantic. Drawing on extensive archival research in multiple languages, she challenges assumptions made by historians about the reliability of these soldiers' direct eyewitness accounts, revealing the personal and political motives of the authors and uncovering the large cast of characters, from family members to publishers, editors, and translators, involved in production behind the scenes. 
   
   
   
  By including literature from Spain and Portugal, Greig also provides a missing link in current studies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, showing how the genre of military memoirs developed differently in south-western Europe and led to starkly opposing national narratives of the same war. Her findings tell the history of a publishing phenomenon which gripped readers of all ages across the world in the nineteenth century, made significant profits for those involved, and was fundamental in defining the modern "soldier's tale."

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