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Author: Robert George HOBBESPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
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Reminiscences of Seventy Years' Life, Travel, and Adventure; Military and Civil, Scientific and Literary. By a Retired Officer of H.M.'s Civil Service (R.G. H[obbes]).
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Author: Robert George HOBBESPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
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Reminiscences [and Notes] of Seventy Years' Life, Travel, and Adventure, Military and Civil, Scientific and Literary: Civil service in Sheerness and Chatham dockyards. Home and foreign travel
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Author: Robert George HobbesPublisher:
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Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Reminiscences of Seventy Years' Life, Travel, and Adventure
Author: Robert George HobbesPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Reminiscences and notes of seventy years' life, travel and adventure; military and civil; scientific and literary
Author: R. G. HobbesSophie's World
Author: Jostein GaarderPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 735
Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
A Civil Servant in Burma
Author: Herbert Thirkell WhitePublisher:
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Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Memories and Adventures
Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher:
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Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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The Travels of Dean Mahomet
Author: Dean MahometPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520918517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insider/outsider in India, Ireland, and England. Emigrating to Britain and living there for over half a century, Mahomet started what was probably the first Indian restaurant in England and then enjoyed a distinguished career as a practitioner of "oriental" medicine, i.e., therapeutic massage and herbal steam bath, in London and the seaside resort of Brighton. This is a fascinating account of life in late eighteenth-century India—the first book written in English by an Indian—framed by a mini-biography of a remarkably versatile entrepreneur. Travels presents an Indian's view of the British conquest of India and conveys the vital role taken by Indians in the colonial process, especially as they negotiated relations with Britons both in the colonial periphery and the imperial metropole. Connoisseurs of unusual travel narratives, historians of England, Ireland, and British India, as well as literary scholars of autobiography and colonial discourse will find much in this book. But it also offers an engaging biography of a resourceful, multidimensional individual.
Simple Dreams
Author: Linda RonstadtPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451668732
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Includes discography (page 203-225) and index.
Too Busy Not to Pray
Author: Bill HybelsPublisher: IVP Books
ISBN: 9780830834754
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For over two decades Too Busy Not to Pray has stood as a classic on prayer, helping Christians all over the world slow down to draw near to God. During those years, the world certainly hasn't slowed down. If anything, the pace, intensity and number of distractions have only increased. Brokenness and pain seem to have increased as well, with news of civil war, poverty, broken families and sex-trafficking touching us daily. The urgent need for prayer is clear, but busyness still keeps many of us from finding time to pray. Two truths haven't changed in all these years: God is the same powerful, just, holy God he's always been; and true prayer—prayer that changes us and allows us to participate in God's work in the world—can't happen on the fly. So Bill Hybels once again offers us his practical, time-tested ideas on slowing down to pray. Revised throughout and including a new introduction and new chapter on prayer and compassion for the world, this twentieth-anniversary edition of Too Busy Not to Pray calls both young and old to make prayer a priority, and broadens our vision for what our eternal, powerful God does when his people slow down to pray.