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This landmark collection is the definitive introduction to the Buddha's teachings - in his own words. The American scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi, whose voluminous translations have won widespread acclaim, here presents selected discourses of the Buddha from the Pali Canon, the earliest record of what the Buddha taught. Divided into 10 thematic chapters, In the Buddha's Words reveals the full scope of the Buddha's discourses, from family life and marriage to renunciation and the path of insight.

Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a goodbye kiss in the morning, her kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she's always a step behind on thank-you notes and her endless list of chores. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime and paperback fiction. At these meetings they're as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are marriage, motherhood, and neighborhood gossip.

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in chapters 2 and 3) on a few essentials, the rules of usage, and principles of composition most commonly violated. In accordance with this plan it lays down three rules for the use of the comma, instead of a score or more, and one for the use of the semicolon, in the belief that these four rules provide for all the internal punctuation that is required by 19 sentences out of 20.

The Nasr family is spread across the globe - Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. Still, they’ve always had their ancestral home in Beirut - a constant touchstone - and the complicated, messy family love that binds them. But following his father's recent death, Idris, the family's new patriarch, has decided to sell. The decision brings the family to Beirut, where everyone unites against Idris in a fight to save the house.

This book offers a complete translation of the Majjhima Nikāya, or Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pāli Canon, the authorised scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This collection - among the oldest records of the historical Buddha's original teachings - consists of 152 suttas or discourses of middle length, distinguished as such from the longer and shorter suttas of the other collections.

Une idée : la séduire. Lui, c'est Wourad. Il a vingt-sept ans. Il aime bien dire que c'est l'âge du Christ... quand il avait vingt-sept ans. Il trouve ça drôle. Il est lourd parfois. Et souvent il est misogyne, homophobe, raciste. Il coche toutes les mauvaises cases. Un gars un peu paumé. Un gars qui n'a jamais su qui il était vraiment. Un jour, il rencontre une fille. Pas du tout paumée, on dirait. Sacrément futée, même. Comme il adore les paris débiles, il se donne trente jours pour la ken. Pas un de plus. Mais il va lui arriver un truc inattendu. Un drôle de truc, avec elle.

Nicholas and Alexander majesties and massacre is a book about: love, life and death of the Russian Czar Nicholas the second and his family. The Czar’s reign commences in the end of 19th century with his father’s burial and inheriting the Crown with an absolute power. His reign begins with Coronation, wedding day, birth of his five children, including son with haemophilia, and the strong love between Nicholas and his wife Alexandra.

"EarthArt" is a poetic journey that captures the timeless beauty and delicate rhythms of the natural world. Through 100 intricately crafted haikus, the book celebrates the elements of earth, water, air, and fire while exploring their intersections with human emotions and experiences. Each haiku in EarthArt serves as a snapshot of nature’s wonders—from the first bloom of spring to the quiet stillness of a snow-covered field.

Hundreds of years before Europeans first viewed the Appalachians, a Native American girl growing up in the shadow of Currahee Mountain becomes a skilled warrior and sets out on a quest to save her family from ruin. Half a millennium later, another girl, living under the same mountain and enduring similar hardships, faces a terrible decision. In order to save her family, she must face betrayal, degradation, and violence at the hands of murderous fanatics. The lives of these two girls converge during a devastating flood that hits the small town of Toccoa, Georgia.

Das Drama Nathan der Weise von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in einer kurzen Zusammenfassung: Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Das Drama Wilhelm Tell von Friedrich Schiller in einer kurzen Zusammenfassung: Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Das Drama Maria Stuart von Friedrich Schiller in einer kurzen Zusammenfassung: Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in einer kurzen Zusammenfassung: Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

The Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia) by Dante Alighieri is one of the greatest works of art known to the world, a "comedy", that became a "divine book" for ancestors. It is an encyclopedia of "moral, natural, philosophical and theological" knowledges, a tremendous synthesis of the feudal catholic ideology and the same tremendous epiphany that spread during the new culture times. A great poetic genius of the author put this comedy above the era and made it a legacy of centuries. It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise.

تدور أحداث هذه الرواية مع مجموعة من الأشخاص يرتبط بعضهم ببعض بصورة رائعة من جانب المؤلف ويتشابهون جميعًا في رغبتهم العارمة في السفر إلى الخارج فتبدأ الحكاية مع أحمد عز الدين أول من لحق بسفينة نوح والذي تخرج في كلية الحقوق بتفوق مبهر وكان حلمه هو العمل كوكيل للنيابة وتبدد حلمه فور تخرجه لفشله في إيجاد من يسانده للعمل في تلك الوظيفة وبالطبع لم يسانده تفوقه في ظل عدم وجود الواسطة ليقرر البحث عبر الانترنت عن أي فتاة أجنبية تساعده على السفر والخروج من مصر وبذلك يتنازل عن خطيبته هاجر حتى لا يشعر بذنب الخيانة وهو يحاول مع فتيات الانترنت.

Within the shores of Isla Bestia, guests from around the world discover a utopia of ever-changing performances, sumptuous feasts and beautiful monsters. Many enter, but few ever leave—the wine is simply too sweet, the music too fine and the revelry endless. Sofía, a freedwoman from a nearby colonized island, cares little for this revelry. Born an enslaved mestiza on a tobacco plantation, she has neither wealth nor title, only a scholarly pragmatism and a hunger for answers. She travels to el Carnaval de Bestias in search of her twin brother, who disappeared five years ago.

Real Italian people don’t speak like your textbook…so it’s no wonder you feel unprepared when it’s your turn to speak! Try the StoryLearning method, and dive into a real-world, gripping drama between six characters that helps you learn authentic spoken Italian in the process.

September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. The war's outcome is far from certain. An Irish priest, Hugh O'Flaherty, dedicates himself to helping those escaping from the Nazis. His home is Vatican City, the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome where the occupiers hold no sway. Here Hugh brings together an unlikely band of friends to hide the vulnerable under the noses of the enemy. But Hauptmann's net begins closing in on the Escape Line and the need for a terrifyingly audacious mission grows critical.

As well as writing about his first love, cars, James has a go at political correctness, the endless rules and regulations of daily life, the internal combustion engine and traffic wardens. He discusses gastropubs, Jeremy Clarkson, and other trials of modern life. His highly entertaining observations from behind the wheel will have you laughing out loud, whether you share his opinions or not.

Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he is focused on his duties as chief of a Maori tribe in Whangara, on the East Coast of New Zealand - a tribe that claims descent from the legendary 'whale rider'. In every generation since the whale rider, a male has inherited the title of chief. But now there is no male heir - there's only Kahu. She should be the next in line for the title, but her great-grandfather is blinded by tradition and sees no use for a girl. Kahu will not be ignored.