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Les Scandales De Londres, Devoiles Par La Pall Mall Gazette. Tr. Des Articles [The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon by W.T. Stead]. (9780270866490)

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World Religions : Eastern Traditions (9780190875442)

World Religions: Eastern Traditions, Fifth Edition, provides students with an accessible, engaging, and thought-provoking survey of Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Chinese, Korean, and Japanese religions. The expert contributors offer an authoritative examination of the origins, central teachings, divisions and branches, rituals and practices, influences on culture, and responses to modern challenges for each tradition. Ideal for courses in Asian religions and comparative religions, World Religions: Eastern Traditions, Fifth Edition, combines a historically descriptive perspective with a spirit of sympathetic fascination. Product details Format Loose-leaf | 448 pages

My Australia (9780642279163)

Shortlisted in the 2019 Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Literature Age range 4+ My Australia is a poetic journey across the Australian landscape. Celebrating both the ancient and modern Australia, the book invites readers to travel across the delights of our continent-from dry deserts to lush rainforests, from high mountains to stormy seashores, from winding rivers to fertile swamplands-all the magical places that are my Australia. With colourful illustrations by Garry Fleming, Julie Murphy's story is beautifully simple, and sure to excite young readers, encouraging a greater awareness and appreciation of our precious and irreplaceable natural places. Teachers' notes available here Product details Format Hardback | 32 pages

SIPRI YEARBOOK 2020 : Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (9780198869207)

The SIPRI Yearbook is as an authoritative and independent source of data and analysis on armaments, disarmament and international security. It provides an overview of developments in international security, weapons and technology, military expenditure, arms production and the arms trade, and armed conflicts and conflict management, along with efforts to control conventional, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. This 51st edition of the SIPRI Yearbook covers developments during 2019, including Armed conflicts and conflict management, with an overview of armed conflicts and peace processes across the Americas, Asia and Oceania, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, as well as a focus on global and regional trends in peace operations Military expenditure, international arms transfers and developments in arms production, World nuclear forces, with an overview of each of the nine nuclear-armed states and their nuclear modernization programmes Nuclear arms

Poems from the Edge of Extinction : The Beautiful New Treasury of Poetry in Endangered Languages, in Association with the National Poetry Library (9781473692992)

One language is falling silent every two weeks. Half of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will be lost by the end of this century. With the loss of these languages, we also lose the unique poetic traditions of their speakers and writers. Poems from the Edge of Extinction gathers together 50 poems in languages from around the world that have been identified as endangered; it is a celebration of our linguistic diversity and a reminder of our commonalities and the fundamental role verbal art plays in human life around the world. With poems by influential, award-winning poets such as US poet laureate Joy Harjo, Hawad, Valzhyna Mort, and Jackie Kay, this anthology offers a unique insight into both languages and poetry, taking the reader on an emotional, life-affirming journey into the culture of these beautiful languages. Each poem appears in its original form, alongside an English translation, and is accompanied by a commentary about the language, the poet and the poem - in a v

PALINURO DE MEXICO (9786071614247)

Palinuro de México es una monumental parodia donde todo parece excesivo, una novela polifónica que se vale de la lengua, la cultura y la recreación de todos los mundos imaginables para ofrecer una narración que mantiene una relación ambivalente con la historia reciente de México. Aunque puede leerse como una novela política, reflejo del espíritu revolucionario juvenil que floreció en México en los años sesenta, también se trata de un artefacto artístico de una gran exuberancia narrativa, que parece alejarse de la historia para encerrarse en un deslumbrante ejercicio verbal. Product details Format Paperback | 2198 pages Dimensions