Avoid The Tourist Herds.What could be more uninspiring than seeing the identical attractions that everyone else has for decades?This Twisted Tour Guide escorts you to the places locals don't want to talk about anymore…the same places people once couldn't stop talking about. Long after the screaming headlines and sensationalism has subsided, these bizarre, infamous and obscure historical sites remain hidden awaiting rediscovery.Each visitation site...

Dr Heilbrunn has already established himself as a historian of irregular warfare. But the subject is not merely a matter of past history, because the so-called 'nuclear stalemate', which has made total warfare improbable, has at the same time made limited warfare the only kind that the world can afford to risk. One hopes, naturally, that the risk will be avoided; but since even a conventional war of the traditional, pre-nuclear kind might easily lead...

Spread the Christmas cheer with this whimsical retelling of Clement C. Moore's cherished poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas." This new edition of the classic features the text of Moore's original poem, illustrated with beautifully detailed LEGO brick scenes and characters. See the colorful stockings hung by the chimney in the fanciful brick house, and look on at the visions of dancing brick sugarplums. Turn the pages to reveal Saint Nicholas with his...

A story of loss, hope and redemption against impossible odds... ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'If you've read The Women by Kristin Hannah I recommend you read this one!!!!' The Canadian Globe & Mail Bestseller! 'Extremely compelling' Historical Novel Society 'Alward tells this story of the wounded survivors and the people who cared for them with affecting grace' Toronto Star 1917. Halifax, Nova Scotia. Nora Crowell wants more than her sister's life as a...

A perennial self-help favorite, updated to speak powerfully to contemporary readers and with a foreword by Eckhart Tolle Before there was The Law of Attraction or The Secret, there was The Magic in Your Mind by U. S. Andersen. Eckhart Tolle recognized the brilliance of this self-empowerment classic and here presents it anew as the latest volume in his imprint. In clear, crisp, invigorating language, Andersen offers a liberating message for anyone...

���� **The Lady: Apparitions, Miracles & Messages** *Medjugorje, Lourdes, Fatima, and Guadalupe* ✨ **Experience the Divine Encounters that Changed History** ✨ Journey through the most powerful Marian apparitions in modern history with *The Lady: Apparitions, Miracles & Messages*. This captivating four-part collection dives deep into the miraculous appearances of the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje, Lourdes, Fatima, and Guadalupe-four sacred...

This collection contains seven Christmas stories from Hollis Shiloh:Winton's StraysTwo young men meet on a train in 1917.Miles is out of the hospital in time for Christmas, traveling to relatives he doesn't want to see. He was lucky to survive the Great War. But he doesn't feel very lucky right now. Until blue-eyed Winton trips on a scarf and into his life. Winton, with his quirky smile, gentle nature, and rescued pets.Miles could love this man, he...

St. Teresa of Calcutta :was born in 1910 in Skopje, in present-day Macedonia, Mother Teresa joined the Sisters of Loreto religious congregation in Dublin, Ireland in 1928. As a Sister of Loreto, she taught geography at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, India for twenty years. In 1950, she started her own religious congregation, the Missionaries of Charity, in order to minister to the poorest of the poor. To people throughout the world, Mother Teresa...

Conocer la vida de este rebelde es de importancia fundamental para entender la conformación del México de hoy. Tengamos en cuenta que Álvaro Obregón tomó las propuestas del Partido Liberal de los hermanos Flores Magón para incluirlas en la Constitución de 1917, como el establecimiento de un salario mínimo, jornadas laborales de ocho horas, el reparto de utilidades y el derecho de huelga, así como la educación laica y gratuita.RICARDO FLORES...

"Best Non-fiction Books of 2019" in Marginal Revolution" David Sorkin is the Lucy G. Moses Professor of History at Yale University. His books include The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna (Princeton), Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment, and The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780–1840. The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern world For all their unquestionable...