miller a now we shall be entirely free
Miller A. Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE.One rainswept winter's night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous campaign against Napoleon's forces in Spain.Gradually Lacroix recovers his health, but not his peace of mind. He will not - cannot - talk about the war or face the memory of what took place on the retreat to Corunna. After the command comes to return to his regiment, he lights out instead for the Hebrides, unaware that he has far worse to fear than being dragged back to the army: a vicious English corporal and a Spanish officer with secret orders are on his trail.In luminous prose, Miller portrays a man shattered by what he has witnessed, on a journey that leads to unexpected friendships, even to love. But as the short northern summer reaches its zenith, the shadow of the enemy is creeping closer. Freedom, for John Lacroix, will come at a high price. Taut with suspense, this is an enthralling, deeply involving novel by one of Britain's most acclaimed writers.
626 Руб.
Miller A. Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE.One rainswept winter's night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous campaign against Napoleon's forces in Spain.Gradually Lacroix recovers his health, but not his peace of mind. He will not - cannot - talk about the war or face the memory of what took place on the retreat to Corunna. After the command comes to return to his regiment, he lights out instead for the Hebrides, unaware that he has far worse to fear than being dragged back to the army: a vicious English corporal and a Spanish officer with secret orders are on his trail.In luminous prose, Miller portrays a man shattered by what he has witnessed, on a journey that leads to unexpected friendships, even to love. But as the short northern summer reaches its zenith, the shadow of the enemy is creeping closer. Freedom, for John Lacroix, will come at a high price. Taut with suspense, this is an enthralling, deeply involving novel by one of Britain's most acclaimed writers.
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Miller Andrew Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
The rapturously acclaimed new novel by the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, hailed as 'excellent', 'gripping', 'as suspenseful as any thriller', 'engrossing', 'moving' and 'magnificent'. One rainswept winter's night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous campaign against Napoleon's forces in Spain. Gradually Lacroix recovers his health, but not his peace of mind. He will not - cannot - talk about the war or face the memory of what took place on the retreat to Corunna. After the command comes to return to his regiment, he lights out instead for the Hebrides, unaware that he has far worse to fear than being dragged back to the army: a vicious English corporal and a Spanish officer with secret orders are on his trail. In luminous prose, Miller portrays a man shattered by what he has witnessed, on a journey that leads to unexpected friendships, even to love. But as the short northern summer reaches its zenith, the shadow of the enemy is creeping closer. Freedom, for John Lacroix, will come at a high price. Taut with suspense, this is an enthralling, deeply involving novel by one of Britain's most acclaimed writers.
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Arnalds Olafur Виниловая пластинка Arnalds Olafur For Now I Am Winter
Состояние носителя: S. Состояние конверта: S. For Now I Am Winter. Виниловая пластинка . Gatefold A1 Sudden Throw A2 Brim A3 For Now I Am Winter A4 A Stutter A5 Words Of Amber B1 Reclaim B2 Hands Be Still B3 Only The Winds B4 Old Skin B5 We (Too) Shall Rest B6 This Place Was A Shelter B7 Carry Me Anew Тип носителя: Виниловая пластинка
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Law Nathan, Fowler Evan Freedom. How we lose it and how we fight back
What does it mean to be truly free? And can any of us be free until all of us are? Nobel Peace Prize nominee Nathan Law has experienced first-hand the shocking speed with which our freedom can be taken away from us, as an elected politician arrested simply for speaking his mind. He remembers what it is like to lack freedom - and his father's precarious three-day escape from China in a small rowing boat. When authoritarianism makes gains around the world, demanding our silence as the price of doing business, it poses a challenge to democracy everywhere. In this passionate rallying cry, Law argues that we must defend our freedom now or face losing it for ever. 'Now we all need to stand firm to defend our freedoms, to ensure truth is not determined by dictators. We are born free and as equals. As long as we believe in that, no one can take it away from us.'
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Herzl Theodor The Jewish State
'We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes' Theodor Herzl's passionate advocacy of the founding of a Jewish state grew out of his conviction that Jews would never be assimilated into the populations in which they lived. Herzl concluded that the only solution for the majority of Jews would be organised emigration to a state of their own. Herzl's political and social plea was the result of centuries of restrictions, hostility and pogroms against the Jews of Europe. His revolutionary proposal for the solution to anti-Semitism was a Jewish state, where Jews could live in peace, free from persecution - and this hugely influential essay led directly to the creation of Israel. Great Ideas. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
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Theory of Heat
his historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... process of radiation as heat. We have defined heat as it exists in hot bodies, and we have seen that all heat is of the same kind. But the radiation between bodies differs from heat as we have defined it--ist, in not making the body hot through which it passes; and, in being of many different kinds. Hence we shall generally speak of radiation, and when we speak of radiant heat we do not mean to imply the existence of a new kind of heat, but to consider radiation in its thermal aspect ON THE DIFFERENT PHYSICAL STATES OF BODIES. Bodies are found to behave in different ways under the action of forces. If we cause a longitudinal pressure to act on a body in one direction by means of a pair of pincers or a vice, the body being free to move in all other directions, we find that if the body is a piece of cold iron there is very little effect produced, unless the pressure be very great; if the body is a piece of india-rubber, it is compressed in the direction of its length and bulges out at the sides, but it soon comes into a state of equilibrium, in which it continues to support the pressure; but if we substitute water for the india-rubber we cannot perform the experiment, for the water flows away laterally, and the jaws of the pincers come together without having exerted any appreciable pressure. Bodies which can sustain a longitudinal pressure, however small that pressure may be, without being supported by a lateral pressure, are called solid bodies. Those which cannot do so are called fluids. We shall see that in a fluid at rest the pressure at any point must be equal in all directions, and this pressure is called the pressure of the fluid. There are two great classes of fluids. If we put into a closed vessel a small quantity of a fluid of... 0
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Theory of Heat
his historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... process of radiation as heat. We have defined heat as it exists in hot bodies, and we have seen that all heat is of the same kind. But the radiation between bodies differs from heat as we have defined it--ist, in not making the body hot through which it passes; and, in being of many different kinds. Hence we shall generally speak of radiation, and when we speak of radiant heat we do not mean to imply the existence of a new kind of heat, but to consider radiation in its thermal aspect ON THE DIFFERENT PHYSICAL STATES OF BODIES. Bodies are found to behave in different ways under the action of forces. If we cause a longitudinal pressure to act on a body in one direction by means of a pair of pincers or a vice, the body being free to move in all other directions, we find that if the body is a piece of cold iron there is very little effect produced, unless the pressure be very great; if the body is a piece of india-rubber, it is compressed in the direction of its length and bulges out at the sides, but it soon comes into a state of equilibrium, in which it continues to support the pressure; but if we substitute water for the india-rubber we cannot perform the experiment, for the water flows away laterally, and the jaws of the pincers come together without having exerted any appreciable pressure. Bodies which can sustain a longitudinal pressure, however small that pressure may be, without being supported by a lateral pressure, are called solid bodies. Those which cannot do so are called fluids. We shall see that in a fluid at rest the pressure at any point must be equal in all directions, and this pressure is called the pressure of the fluid. There are two great classes of fluids. If we put into a closed vessel a small quantity of a fluid of... 0
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Fry Stephen Moab Is My Washpot
Stephen Fry's bestselling memoir tells how, sent to a boarding school 200 miles from home at the age of seven, he survived beatings, misery, love, ecstasy, carnal violation, expulsion, imprisonment, criminal conviction, probation and catastrophe to emerge, at eighteen, ready to try and face the world in which he had always felt a stranger. When he was fifteen, he wrote this in a letter to himself, not to be read until he was twenty-five: 'Well I tell you now that everything I feel now, everything I am now is truer and better than anything I shall ever be. Ever. This is me now, the real me. Every day that I grow away from the me that is writing this now is a betrayal and a defeat.' Whether the real Stephen Fry is the man now living, or the extraordinary adolescent now dead, only you will be able to decide.
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Виниловая пластинка Caravan: Hunting We Shall Go - Live In 1974 (180g). 1 LP
Caravan: Hunting We Shall Go - Live In 1974 (180g). 1 LP. A1 A Hunting We Shall Go - 8:43, A2 Hoedown - 5:51, B1 For Richard - 19:16
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Виниловая пластинка Jonathan Jeremiah - Gold Dust. 1 LP
Треклист: A1. Gold Dust A2. Fighting Since The Day We Are Born A3. Shout A4. Lazin' In The Sunshine A5. Everyday Life A6. All We Need Is A Motorway B1. The Time Of Our Lives B2. You Save Me B3. Chatsworth Ave. B4. Forever Shall Be Ours B5. Caffeine & Saccharin B6. Gold Dust (Reprise)
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Lanier Jaron Dawn of the New Everything. A Journey Through Virtual Reality
Virtual reality has long been one of the dominant cliches of science fiction. Now virtual reality is a reality: from the startling beauty of lifelike video games to the place where war veterans overcome PTSD, surgeries are trialled, and aircraft and cities are designed. VR is, in fact now, the most effective device ever invented for researching what a human being actually is - and how we think and feel. More than thirty years ago, legendary computer scientist, visionary and artist Jaron Lanier pioneered its invention. Here he blends scientific investigation, philosophical thought experiment and his memoir of a life lived at the centre of digital innovation to explain what VR really is: the science of comprehensive illusion; the extension of the intimate magic of earliest childhood into adulthood; a hint of what life would be like without any limits. We are standing on the threshold of an entirely new realm of human creativity, expression, communication and experience, and as we use VR to test our relationship with reality, it may test us in return.
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Burn Gordon Fullalove
Norman Miller used to be one of Fleet Street's finest. Now he's a middle-aged, burned-out hack with a gift for the sensational story, the shouting tabloid lead. But as he reports on a series of brutal murders and sex crimes, he's forced to wonder whether he is just a witness - or part of some deeper pattern of cause and effect…
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Cornitos Nachos Crisps Sweet Chilli 150 g
Non - gmo Gluten Free Vegetarian Product Cholesterol free Cornitos Nacho Crisps Sweet Chili has a unique taste, these nacho chips can also be served as a dish with salsa and cheese dip and other toppings as a full meal. So grab your pack now and keep munching! Because with a taste like this your taste buds will keep wanting more and more! These chips can also be served as a dish with salsa and cheese dip and other toppings as a full meal. So grab your pack now and keep munching! Because with a taste like this your taste buds will keep wanting more and more! These chips are crunchy and delicious and are the perfect snack to accompany any movie or game night. This product contains no gmo, it is also gluten free, cholesterol free, and a vegetarian product.
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Виниловая пластинка Willie Nelson Виниловая пластинка Willie Nelson / The Troublemaker (LP)
Трек-лист: A1. Uncloudy Day A2. When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder A3. Whispering Hope A4. There Is A Fountain A5. Will The Circle Be Unbroken A6. The Trouble Maker B1. In The Garden B2. Where The Soul Never Dies B3. Sweet Bye & Bye B4. Shall We Gather B5. Precious Memories
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Carr Allen The Easy Way to Quit Sugar. The Illustrated Guide
Read the Easy Way to Quit Sugar and be the weight you want to be for the rest of your life. People are now so hooked on sugar that it's become the number one threat to health in the modern world. This book helps explain the truth about bad sugar and introduces a proven method to cut it out of your diet entirely. Once you free yourself from addiction, you'll feel happier and healthier, and you'll be able to choose the weight you want to be for the rest of your life. Allen Carr's Easyway is a global phenomenon. It has helped millions of smokers from all over the world. It works by unravelling the brainwashing that leads us to desire the very thing that is harming us, and it has now been applied to other areas. The Easy Way to Quit Sugar tackles the biggest dietary threat to the modern world: addiction to refined sugar and processed carbohydrates. With the brilliant additional writing skills and illustrations of Bev Aisbett, you'll free yourself of addiction and enjoy better health, higher levels of energy, dramatically improved body shape and a happier, healthier lifestyle. A unique method that does not require willpower removes addiction to refined sugar and processed carbohydrates stop easily, immediately and painlessly regain control of your life.
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