Hundred Gifts

Author : Jennifer Scott
Publisher : NAL
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780451473240

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Hundred Gifts by Jennifer Scott Pdf

"With the holidays around the corner, empty nester Bren Epperson realizes that for the first time in decades, she has no large family to cook for and no celebration to create. Her daughter has moved to Thailand, her son has ditched college to backpack around the world, and her husband has disappeared into the basement to indulge his midlife crisis. So Bren starts teaching a holiday cooking class, and it's a hit--until Virginia Mash, the old lady living upstairs, bursts in, complaining of the noise, the smells, and the mess. Rather than retaliate, Bren suggests that the class shower Virginia with kindness--that they give her one hundred gifts. So they embark on a plan to lift a heart. Along the way, amid knitting and making and baking, they'll discover that family celebrations can be reborn and that the very best gifts can't be bought--they're from the heart"--

Author : Sinem Arcak Casale
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226820422

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Gifts in the Age of Empire by Sinem Arcak Casale Pdf

Explores the Safavid and Ottoman empires through the lens of gifts. When the Safavid dynasty, founded in 1501, built a state that championed Iranian identity and Twelver Shi'ism, it prompted the more established Ottoman Empire to align itself definitively with Sunni legalism. The political, religious, and military conflicts that arose have since been widely studied, but little attention has been paid to their diplomatic relationship. Sinem Arcak Casale here sets out to explore these two major Muslim empires through a surprising lens: gifts. Countless treasures—such as intricate carpets, gilded silver cups, and ivory-tusk knives—flowed from the Safavid to the Ottoman Empire throughout the sixteenth century. While only a handful now survive, records of these gifts exist in court chronicles, treasury records, poems, epistolary documents, ambassadorial reports, and travel narratives. Tracing this elaborate archive, Casale treats gifts as representative of the complicated Ottoman-Safavid coexistence, demonstrating how their rivalry was shaped as much by culture and aesthetics as it was by religious or military conflict. Gifts in the Age of Empire explores how gifts were no mere accessories to diplomacy but functioned as a mechanism of competitive interaction between these early modern Muslim courts.

Author : Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015030569415

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The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge Pdf

Author : Blanchard Jerrold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000121123537

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The Best of All Good Company. A Day with Charles Dickens by Blanchard Jerrold Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000080776135

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Great Thoughts from Master Minds by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thilde Kold Holdt
Publisher : Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786183231

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Northern Wrath by Thilde Kold Holdt Pdf

"Packs a punch worthy of the Thunderer himself. It rocks!" -- Joanne Harris, author of The Gospel of Loki "Holdt wows in her Norse mythology inspired debut an electrifying adventure" -- Publishers Weekly, starred review A dead man, walking between the worlds, foresees the end of the gods. A survivor searching for a weapon releases a demon from fiery Muspelheim. A village is slaughtered by Christians, and revenge must be taken. The bonds between the gods and Midgard are weakening. It is up to Hilda, Ragnar, their tribesmen Einer and Finn, the chief's wife Siv and Tyra, her adopted daughter, to fight to save the old ways from dying out, and to save their gods in the process. Following in the steps of Neil Gaiman & Joanne Harris, the author expertly weaves Norse myths and compelling characters into this fierce, magical epic fantasy.

Author : Colorado
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1574 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : MINN:31951D02282002Z

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Colorado Revised Statutes by Colorado Pdf

Author : Ron Curtis
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781449086824

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Guest Authors by Ron Curtis Pdf

Guest Authors The Third Collection contains exciting, stimulating stories and tantalizing, terrorizing tales carefully selected from only the world's most reclusive, rarely read, and virtually unknown authors. These twelve selections have been methodically chosen, and guaranteed, to consume your mentality, enlighten your awareness, entertain, and magically mystify you. This Third Collection targets all those everywhere who are young at heart, which of course is everyone, for their reading enjoyment. The contributing authors in this Collection are Rupert "Rip" Tile, Ghast Lee Tale, "Bum" P. Rode, U. B. Smartt, Nathaniel "Nate" Shure, Smoke N. Gunn, Ester Whipple, and Sandford "Sandy" Beach. Do you have the courage? Do you dare read this book? Within these pages you can know what True Love really is, learn the origin of one of our most popular beverages, see how some people earn money, and find The Solution for It. Also, learn of a brewing Revolt, experience a couple made for each other in My Twin Flame, and see how May Belle Vega became The Richest Woman in the West. Enjoy a Holiday Gift, get ready for The Senior Prom, and help investigate a murder on South Padre Island. Then witness The Forest Incident, and take an action packed Sea Cruise. Go ahead, take a deep breath, open the cover, dive in, and enjoy!

Author : Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Vedas
ISBN : HARVARD:AH22KW

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The Hymns of the Rigveda by Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith Pdf

Author : Boston (Mass.) Registry Dept
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : UOM:39015027886889

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Records Relating to the Early History of Boston by Boston (Mass.) Registry Dept Pdf

Author : Boston (Mass.). Registry Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : UCAL:B3496174

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Records Relating to the Early History of Boston ... by Boston (Mass.). Registry Department Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004488519

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The Medieval Chronicle by Anonim Pdf

In the summer of 1996 the first international conference was held on the medieval chronicle, a genre which until then had received but scant attention from historians or specialists in literary history or art history. There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of an international conference. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not only in Europe but also in the countries neighbouring on it, like those of the Arabic world. Secondly, all chronicles raise such questions as by whom, for whom, or for what purpose were they written, how do they reconstruct the past, what determined the choice of verse or prose, or what kind of literary influences are discernable in them. Finally, many chronicles have been beautifully illuminated, and the relation between text and image leads to a wholly different set of questions. It is the aim of the present volume to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds.

Author : Jennifer Scott
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698184152

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The Hundred Gifts by Jennifer Scott Pdf

The national bestselling author of The Sister Season shares a new novel about a woman who discovers the spirit of the season is truly in the giving.... With the holidays around the corner, empty-nester Bren Epperson realizes that for the first time in decades, she has no large family to cook for, no celebration to create. So she starts teaching a holiday cooking class, and it’s a hit—until Virginia Mash, the old lady upstairs, bursts in complaining. Rather than retaliate, Bren suggests that the class shower Virginia with kindness—and give her one hundred gifts. So they embark on the plan to lift a heart. Along the way, amidst the knitting and the making and the baking, they’ll discover the best gifts can’t be bought and family celebrations can be reborn. CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED

Author : Shrinivas Vasudeo Pradhan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443865920

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The Elusive Aryans by Shrinivas Vasudeo Pradhan Pdf

The question of the original home of the Aryans and their migrations to India is only part of the problem of their “elusiveness.” Their subsequent assimilation and nativization in India also contributed to this elusive quality. This socio-cultural process can be traced through a study of their gods, rituals, and philosophy. Thus changes in the nature and function of Ṛgvedic gods; the appearance of upstart gods in the late Ṛgvedic period; the elaboration of the soma ritual with elaborate supplementary rituals; the introduction of the new ritual of Agnicayana; the rise of the eschatology of “punarjanma” (rebirth) and “saṁsāra” (eternal return) based on “karma”; and the ideal of “mukti”, or liberation from life, in place of the former ideal of a life of “śaradaḥ śatam” (a hundred autumns) are symptoms of, as well as a witness to, the transformation of the original identity of the Aryans as revealed in the Family Books of the Ṛgveda. This cultural transformation is no less significant than the “Yakṣa praṣṇa” (knotty question) of their original home and their “indubitable” archaeological traces. The book addresses itself to both these questions, and, for that purpose, takes another look at some of the archaeological material and Aryan life and thought as reflected in Vedic literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1388 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : CORNELL:31924064794724

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The English Reports: Exchequer by Anonim Pdf

V. 1-11. House of Lords (1677-1865) -- v. 12-20. Privy Council (including Indian Appeals) (1809-1865) -- v. 21-47. Chancery (including Collateral reports) (1557-1865) -- v. 48-55. Rolls Court (1829-1865) -- v. 56-71. Vice-Chancellors' Courts (1815-1865) -- v. 72-122. King's Bench (1378-1865) -- v. 123-144. Common Pleas (1486-1865) -- v. 145-160. Exchequer (1220-1865) -- v. 161-167. Ecclesiastical (1752-1857), Admiralty (1776-1840), and Probate and Divorce (1858-1865) -- v. 168-169. Crown Cases (1743-1865) -- v. 170-176. Nisi Prius (1688-1867).