Gabriel: 1749 books
The Book of Khartoum
A City in Short Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Khartoum, according to one theory, takes its name from the Beja word hartooma, meaning meeting place . Geographically, culturally and historically, the Sudanese capital is certainly that: a meeting place of the Blue and White Niles, a confluence of Arabic and African histories, and a destination point...
by Cristóbal de Molina, Brian S. Bauer, Vania Smith-Oka
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Only a few decades after the Spanish conquest of Peru, the third Bishop of Cuzco, Sebastián de Lartaún, called for a report on the religious practices of the Incas. The report was prepared by Cristóbal de Molina, a priest of the Hospital for the Natives of Our Lady of Succor in Cuzco and Preacher...
by James Joyce, Julio Cortázar, Franz Kafka
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Este é mais um volume da bestseller Coleção Melhores Contos, uma seleção de obras primas de autores de diversas nacionalidades e com temáticas das mais variadas, mas que tem em comum uma enorme e talvez a mais importante qualidade literária: a de dar prazer ao leitor. Neste ebook você terá...
Le Coureur des bois
Les Chercheurs d'or
Language: French
Release Date: July 3, 2015
BnF collection ebooks - "C'est un pittoresque et important paysage à la fois que présente le port l'Elanchovi, sur la côte de Biscaye. Quand, à mon retour d'Amérique, poussé par l'un des hasards d'une vie d'aventures, je débarquai un jour à Elanchovi, ce ne fut cependant pas sur le paysage...
Marketing Your Book
A Guide For Self-Publishing Authors
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2017
Here you are! You’ve done it, you’ve finished your book. Maybe you have some final-touches left, but the hard part is over and you’ve completed your masterpiece! All those days spent researching and writing and fitting everything together perfectly are behind you. But your book isn’t really...
Le Centenaire de l'École normale (1795-1895)
Édition du Bicentenaire
Language: French
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Désireuse de marquer son premier siècle d’existence et d’édifier un monument qui survive à une éphémère célébration, l’École normale supérieure avait publié en 1895 un Livre du Centenaire qui retraçait l’histoire des cent années écoulées depuis le décret de la Convention....
El Grito De Dolores
Viva Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Cuando el cura Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla exalto a sus parroquianos a levantarse sobre la corona espaola en bsqueda de conseguir la Independencia Mexicana con un emotivo llamado, engendro El Grito de Dolores, y se convirti en Padre de la Patria. Este es un evento de gigantescas proporciones que demuestra...
All About Mom
From Mark Twain to Maya Angelou--Insights, Thoughts, And Life Lessons on Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2006
Nothing else in life compares to the one-of-a-kind bond mothers have with their children. Filled with more than 400 heartfelt reflections from such luminaries as Sylvia Plath, Booker T. Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Jamaica Kincaid,...
The Weimar Moment
Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community” – or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race” – cannot but appeal to us today. This...
Therefore, I Think
(Science and Philosophy Poetry)
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2003
THEREFORE I THINK is a book that examines the intersection of science and philosophy. Catching the great minds like a web, science and philosophy have drawn out great mental gymnastics throughout history. Now put into poetry, side by side, these disciplines provoke ruminations on the thoughts and...
by Étienne-Gabriel Morelly
Language: French
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo.
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Je développe analytiquement dans cette dissertation des vérités qui, malgré leur simplicité et leur évidence, sont presque de tout temps demeurées dans l’oubli, ou environnées des ténèbres des préjugés....
Freedom and Order
How Democratic Governments Restrict Civil Liberties after Terrorist Attacks_and Why Sometimes They Don't
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
The book examines how governments and publics react to terrorist attacks in the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel. It focuses specifically on why civil liberties are abridged in some cases and not in others. The chapters cover the topic by looking at it through a number of different lenses,...
Fire and Flames
A History of the German Autonomist Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Translated for the first time into English, the history of the German autonomous anticapitalist movement is traced back to the 1970s in this firsthand account. Battling police in riot gear, the early members of the autonomous movement used military tactics that included barricading and hurling Molotov...
All About Dad
Insights, Thoughts, and Life Lessons on Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
With quotes from Whitney Houston, Cybill Shepard, Burt Reynolds, William Shakespeare, and Harry S. Truman, All About Dad is the best way to show a father that he is loved.