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Your ticket from the twenty-first century to the era of Jesus and the first Christians. A listenable, two-volume introduction placing the entire New Testament and early Christianity in its original context, written by distinguished scholar and author N. T. Wright. An ideal guide for students...

Almost everyone swears, or worries about not swearing, from the two year-old who has just discovered the power of potty mouth to the grandma who wonders why every other word she hears is obscene. Whether they express anger or exhilaration, are meant to insult or to commend, swear words perform a crucial role in language. But swearing is also a uniquely well-suited lens through which to look at history, offering a fascinating record of what people care about on the deepest levels of a culture - what's divine, what's terrifying, and what's taboo.

Your ticket from the twenty-first century to the era of Jesus and the first Christians. A listenable, two-volume introduction placing the entire New Testament and early Christianity in its original context, written by distinguished scholar and author N. T. Wright. An ideal guide for students...

Thomas Edward Lawrence war "Lawrence von Arabien". Der englische Offizier unterstützte in den Jahren 1917/18 den Aufstand der Araber gegen die türkische Herrschaft. Als Verbindungsmann zur britischen Armee organisierte er zusammen mit Scherif Faisal den arabischen Unabhängigkeitskampf. Seine Guerillataktiken verschafften den Aufständischen schnell erste Erfolge - die Legende des "Lawrence von Arabien" war geboren.

En América hay una historia que no ha sido contada, la de los nativos, la de los indios que se quedaron sin tierra y sin familia, los que desaparecieron por ser diferentes. Samuel es un abogado de una prestigiosa firma de la capital, pero también es un descendiente de los muiscas, de los pocos que sobrevivieron al “descubrimiento”. Junto a su mejor amigo y un equipo de apasionados profesionales trabajarán en un proyecto en el que el objetivo es demandar a la corona española para que respondan por el gran genocidio que sucedió hace cientos de años.

Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks, Jennifer Roberts traces not only the common values that united them across the seas and the centuries, but also the enormous diversity in their ideas and beliefs.

The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, The New Testament in Its World: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the...

Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished British, French, German, Danish, and Czech archival sources, Spying on the Reich tells the story of Germany and its rearmament in the 1920s and 1930s; its relations with foreign governments and their intelligence services; and the relations and rivalries between Western governments, seen through the prism of the cooperation, or lack of it, between their spy agencies.

Las cartas están echadas. Ya hay fecha para que el bufete de Bruselas exponga sus alegatos ante la Corte Penal Internacional. Los apoyos de líderes indígenas continúan llegando y todo parece bien encaminado. En este trayecto sus protagonistas han tenido que sortear traiciones, amenazas, el desamor y el amor; sin embargo, han superado esas pruebas. A pocos días de viajar para La Haya, Samuel Piracún desaparece. No hay rastros de él. El equipo tiene dudas sobre continuar o no con el proyecto.