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  • Audiobook

    OFFLINE

    Unabridged

    1 hour 37 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.“Offline” is a warm, clever and slightly ironic story about love in times of constant connectivity – about how much of a relationship can be captured in data, and what remains when you stop relying on memory and start trusting the person. The perfect listening experience for all those who still believe in the one connection that cannot be erased. ... Read more

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  • The Pilgrims' Complaint

    A Study of Popular Thought in the Early Tudor North

    by Michael Bush ...
    Series series Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
    The Pilgrimage of Grace, a popular uprising in the north of England against Henry VIII's religious policies, has long been recognised as a crucial point in the fortunes of the English Reformation. Historians have long debated the motives of the rebels and what effects they had on government policy. In this new study, however, Michael Bush takes a fresh approach, examining the wealth of textual ... Read more

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    Series series Wisdom
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  • The Prince

    Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power.Astonishing in its candor, The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince . . . a king . . . a president. When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post in his beloved Florence, he resolved to set down a treatise on leadership that was practical, not idealistic ... Read more

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    Edited by Peter Marshall ...
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    The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences are still working themselves out in Europe and across the world. The protests against the marketing of indulgences staged by the German monk Martin Luther in 1517 belonged to a long-standing pattern of calls for internal reform and renewal in the Christian Church. But they rapidly took a radical and unexpected turn, engulfing first ... Read more

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