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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories.
Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike — strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents — and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. Observers were amazed by the transformations that took place...
Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike — strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents — and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. Observers were amazed by the transformations that took place...
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Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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The harrowing story of one of history's most compelling military campaigns. In An Army at Dawn - winner of the Pulitzer Prize - Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943, attack Italy two months later, and then fight their way, mile by bloody mile, north toward Rome. The Italian campaign's...
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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The human soul has a built-in yearning for joy and beauty and all good things. But that craving for life has taken a real beating in recent years. Between false promises of ease and comfort on one side and the sheer trauma of global disease and disasters on the other, people today are facing a shortage of peace, happiness and strength.
In the Resilient video Bible study, bestselling author John Eldredge provides skills and tools to help participants...
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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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This New York Times bestselling account of books parachuted to soldiers during WWII is a “cultural history that does much to explain modern America” (USA Today).
When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned 100 million books. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops, gathering 20 million hardcover donations. Two years later, the
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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After writing Proof of Heaven, Dr. Eben Alexander heard from the thousands affected by his story. He studied what the world's religious traditions and philosophers have said about the soul's survival of death. Part metaphysical detective story, part manual for living, The map of Heaven explores our spiritual history and the birth of modern science, showing how we forgot, and are at last remembering, who we really are and what our true destiny is.
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