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Sexton's Pocket-Book for Boiler-Makers and Steam Users

Comprising a Variety of Useful Information for Employer and Workmen, Government Inspectors, Board of Trade Surveyors, Engineers in Charge of Works and Ships, Foreman of Manufactories, and the General Steam-Using Public

by Maurice John Sexton ...

This vintage book contains a handbook of useful information originally designed for inspectors, surveyors, engineers, factory foremen, and the general steam-using public. With information on everything from repairing boilers to general advice, this profusely illustrated volume will appeal to modern readers with a practical interest in steam power and collectors of vintage literature of this ilk. ... Read more

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This vintage book contains a handbook of useful information originally designed for inspectors, surveyors, engineers, factory foremen, and the general steam-using public. With information on everything from repairing boilers to general advice, this profusely illustrated volume will appeal to modern readers with a practical interest in steam power and collectors of vintage literature of this ilk.
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Baseball as a Road to God

Seeing Beyond the Game

by John Sexton, Thomas Oliphant, Peter J. Schwartz ...

The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality.For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other.Baseball as a Road to God is about touching ... Read more

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The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality.For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other.Baseball as a Road to God is about touching
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Red Friends

Internationalists in China's Struggle for Liberation

by John Sexton ...

The story of the friends and allies of the Chinese RevolutionChina’s resistance to Imperial Japan was the other great internationalist cause of the ‘red 1930s’, along with the Spanish Civil War. These desperate and bloody struggles were personified in the lives of Norman Bethune and others who volunteered in both conflicts. The story of Red Friends starts in the 1920s when, encouraged by the newly ... Read more

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The story of the friends and allies of the Chinese RevolutionChina’s resistance to Imperial Japan was the other great internationalist cause of the ‘red 1930s’, along with the Spanish Civil War. These desperate and bloody struggles were personified in the lives of Norman Bethune and others who volunteered in both conflicts. The story of Red Friends starts in the 1920s when, encouraged by the newly
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Just A Minute

Collection of Short Stories

by Joaquin Bernal, China Rain Chung, Kryst Le Grif, Thelma Benison, Audrey Fong, Anthony Savasta, Mark Robinson, William "Brent" Heckler, Mia Del Bando, Joan Halperin, Zora Ilunga-Reed, John Sexton, Stephanie Watson, Dakota Gipson, Rachel McCarren, Kaitlin Pradhan, Rahul Sharma, Jami'L Carter, Cameron Cohen, Barbara Rogers ...

Free Spirit is a book publishing brand registered and having its head office in Mumbai, India. We are on the verge of setting up our offices in USA as well.We have been around since 2018.Our writers hail from over 48 countries across the world. To view the complete list visit our website.We welcome book reviews on our website – www.freespiritpublisher.com . Books can also be ordered directly from ... Read more

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Free Spirit is a book publishing brand registered and having its head office in Mumbai, India. We are on the verge of setting up our offices in USA as well.We have been around since 2018.Our writers hail from over 48 countries across the world. To view the complete list visit our website.We welcome book reviews on our website – www.freespiritpublisher.com . Books can also be ordered directly from
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Personal Data Collection Risks in a Post-Vaccine World

by Annette Richardson ...

Series series Anthem Ethics of Personal Data Collection
In the early twenty-first century, the international relations literature still posits realism as a dominant paradigm in the Western School. This volume introduces alternative frames of reference that address the deficiencies of liberalism with its lack of sufficient attention to ethnic diversity. By drawing on constructivism with its focus on framing, particularly the influence in instrumentalist ... Read more

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In the early twenty-first century, the international relations literature still posits realism as a dominant paradigm in the Western School. This volume introduces alternative frames of reference that address the deficiencies of liberalism with its lack of sufficient attention to ethnic diversity. By drawing on constructivism with its focus on framing, particularly the influence in instrumentalist
... Read more
A Companion to Julian of Norwich

by Liz Herbert McAvoy, Ena Jenkins, John Sexton, Book Reviews Editor, Kim M Phillips, Laura Saetveit Miles, Marleen Cre, Sarah Salih, Vincent Gillespie, Annie Sutherland, Barry A Windeatt0, Cate Gunn1, Denise N Baker2, Diane Watt3, E A Jones4, Elisabeth Dutton5, Elizabeth Robertson6 ...

Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most important and best-known figures of the Middle Ages. Her Revelations, intense visions of the divine, have been widely studied and read; the first known writings of an English woman, their influence extends over theology and literature. However, many aspects of both her life and thought remain ... Read more

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Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most important and best-known figures of the Middle Ages. Her Revelations, intense visions of the divine, have been widely studied and read; the first known writings of an English woman, their influence extends over theology and literature. However, many aspects of both her life and thought remain
... Read more
Standing for Reason

The University in a Dogmatic Age

by John Sexton ...

A powerful case for the importance of universities as an antidote to the “secular dogmatism” that increasingly infects political discourse John Sexton argues that over six decades, a “secular dogmatism,” impenetrable by dialogue or reason, has come to dominate political discourse in America. Political positions, elevated to the status of doctrinal truths, now simply are “revealed.” Our leaders and ... Read more

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A powerful case for the importance of universities as an antidote to the “secular dogmatism” that increasingly infects political discourse John Sexton argues that over six decades, a “secular dogmatism,” impenetrable by dialogue or reason, has come to dominate political discourse in America. Political positions, elevated to the status of doctrinal truths, now simply are “revealed.” Our leaders and
... Read more
Disagreements of the Jurists

A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory

by al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān ...

Translated by Devin Stewart ...

Series Book 22 - Library of Arabic Literature
A masterful overview of Islamic law and its diversityAl-Qadi al-Nu'man was the chief legal theorist and ideologue of the North African Fatimid dynasty in the tenth century. This translation makes available for the first time in English his major work on Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh), which presents a legal model in support of the Fatimid claim to legitimate rule.Composed as part of a grand ... Read more

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A masterful overview of Islamic law and its diversityAl-Qadi al-Nu'man was the chief legal theorist and ideologue of the North African Fatimid dynasty in the tenth century. This translation makes available for the first time in English his major work on Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh), which presents a legal model in support of the Fatimid claim to legitimate rule.Composed as part of a grand
... Read more
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Baseball as a Road to God

Seeing Beyond the Game

by John Sexton, Thomas Oliphant, Peter J. Schwartz ...

Narrated by Christopher Lane ...

Unabridged

8 hours 24 min

A love letter to America’s most beloved sport and an exploration of the deeper dimensions it revealsFor more than a decade, New York University president John Sexton has used baseball to illustrate the elements of a spiritual life in a wildly popular course at NYU. Using great works of baseball literature as well as the actual game’s fantastic moments, its legendary characters, and its routine ... Read more

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A love letter to America’s most beloved sport and an exploration of the deeper dimensions it revealsFor more than a decade, New York University president John Sexton has used baseball to illustrate the elements of a spiritual life in a wildly popular course at NYU. Using great works of baseball literature as well as the actual game’s fantastic moments, its legendary characters, and its routine
... Read more

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The Art of Fielding

A Novel

by Chad Harbach ...

Narrated by Holter Graham ...

Unabridged

15 hours 55 min

**A disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in this widely acclaimed tale about love, life, and baseball.“Wonderful ... a novel that is every bit as entertaining as it is affecting.” —The New York Times“First novels this complete and consuming come along very, very seldom.” —Jonathan Franzen, New York Times bestselling author of Crossroads**At Westish College, a small school ... Read more

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**A disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in this widely acclaimed tale about love, life, and baseball.“Wonderful ... a novel that is every bit as entertaining as it is affecting.” —The New York Times“First novels this complete and consuming come along very, very seldom.” —Jonathan Franzen, New York Times bestselling author of Crossroads**At Westish College, a small school
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The Light Between Oceans

A Novel

by M.L. Stedman ...

Narrated by Noah Taylor ...

Unabridged

10 hours 22 min

The captivating and beautiful years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture, now in a gorgeous new package designed for the modern reader.After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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The captivating and beautiful years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture, now in a gorgeous new package designed for the modern reader.After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a
... Read more

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The Goldfinch

A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

by Donna Tartt ...

Narrated by David Pittu ...

Unabridged

32 hours 26 min

A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by ... Read more

$49.99 USD

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A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by
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