Tag: Life

Judaism For Everyone Renewing Your Life Through The Vibrant Lessons Of The Jewish Faith


Free Download Schmuley Boteach, "Judaism For Everyone: Renewing Your Life Through The Vibrant Lessons Of The Jewish Faith"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0465007953 | EPUB | pages: 464 | 0.4 mb
The outspoken author of the best-selling Kosher Sex turns his energy and erudition to the core teachings of Judaism itself, presenting the Jewish faith as a source of inspiration and meaning to people of all religions.

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If You Were Only White The Life of Leroy Satchel Paige (Sports and American Culture)


Free Download Donald Spivey, "If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige (Sports and American Culture)"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0826220142, 0826219780 | EPUB | pages: 376 | 4.4 mb
If You Were Only White explores the legacy of one of the most exceptional athletes ever-an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and crowd-pleaser, a wizard with a baseball whose artistry and antics on the mound brought fans out in the thousands to ballparks across the country. Leroy "Satchel" Paige was arguably one of the world’s greatest pitchers and a premier star of Negro Leagues Baseball. But in this biography Donald Spivey reveals Paige to have been much more than just a blazing fastball pitcher.

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How Life Works A User’s Guide to the New Biology


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English | November 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 0226826686 | 552 pages | True EPUB | 5.86 MB
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers.

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Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust Writing Life


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English | ISBN: 0739190075 | 2016 | 134 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust: Writing Life begins with the premise that writing proves virtually synonymous with survival, bearing the traces of life and of death carried within those who survived the atrocities of the Nazis. In reading specific testimonies by survivor-writers Paul Celan, Charlotte Delbo, Olga Lengyel, Gisella Perl, and Dan Pagis, this text seeks to answer the question: How was it possible for these survivors to write about human destruction, if death is such an intimate part of the survivors’ survival?

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Gardens In My Life (2024)


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English | 2021 | ISBN: 1789545684 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 115.1 mb
Arabella Lennox Boyd is one of the foremost garden designers in the world. She has created some of the country’s most stunning private gardens, in addition to commissions for the Serpentine Sackler Gallery and projects for Sting and Sir Terence Conran. Looking back over her extraordinary career, Arabella takes us on a tour of thirty of her most important gardens and describes the inspirations that led to the final design. Famed for her herbaceous borders and a passionate collector of plants and shrubs, Arabella imparts her expert wisdom on planting and offers practical advice on landscaping. Each chapter begins with a short story on the item or plant which inspired the garden in question, followed by a description of the garden and how Arabella conceived the design. The book will be illustrated with beautiful photography and accompanied by Arabella’s sketches and masterplans. There will also be a useful glossary of planting information for reference.

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Focused Keeping Your Life on Track, One Choice at a Time


Free Download Noelle Pikus Pace, "Focused: Keeping Your Life on Track, One Choice at a Time"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1609079469 | EPUB | pages: 144 | 4.3 mb
Where are your choices leading you? Regardless of our circumstances, each moment presents us with decision to make. It doesn’t matter what question, trial, or success we experience each traces back to a choice. At any given moment, we can choose to doubt, fear, worry; to be prideful, angry, depressed, or miserable or we can choose to move forward. We can choose to be a light. We can choose to be happy. The choice is always ours, and each choice can be a step forward on the path of life we want for ourselves.

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