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24 produkter
Hitler's Scientists
Science, War and the Devil's Pact
Häftad, 2004
203 kr
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In a rich and fascinating history John Cornwell tells the epic story of Germany's scientists from the First World War to the collapse of Hitler's Reich. He shows how Germany became the world's Mecca for inventive genius, taking the lion's share of Nobel awards, before Hitler's regime hijacked …
Seminary Boy
Häftad, 2007
151 kr
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One of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, the acclaimed writer John Cornwell has finally written his own story, and the story of a choice he had to make between the Church and a life lived outside its confines.John Cornwell decided to become a priest at the age of thirteen, a strange …
Seminary Boy
E-bok, 2010
88 kr
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One of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, the acclaimed writer John Cornwell has finally written his own story, and the story of a choice he had to make between the Church and a life lived outside its confines.John Cornwell decided to become a priest at the age of thirteen, a strange …
Hitler's Pope
The Secret History of Pius XII
Häftad, 2000
198 kr
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Backed by a wealth of new research, John Cornwell tells for the first time the story of the World War II career of Eugenio Pacelli, the man who was Pope Pius XII, arguably the most dangerous churchman in modern history. In the first decade of the century, as a brilliant young Vatican lawyer, …
Pope in Winter
The Dark Face of John Paul II's Papacy
E-bok, 2005
94 kr
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The Late John Paul II was portrayed by admirers as one of history's great popes. But in The Pope in Winter, leading Vatican expert John Cornwell seriously questions the workings of his papacy and points to fundamental flaws - exacerbated by age and infirmity - that have alarming consequences for …
Explanations
styles of explanation in science
E-bok, 2004
208 kr
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Our lives, states of health, relationships, behaviour, experiences of the natural world, and the technologies that shape our contemporary existence are subject to a superfluity of competing, multi-faceted and sometimes incompatible explanations. Widespread confusion about the nature of …
Explanations
styles of explanation in science
E-bok, 2004
208 kr
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Our lives, states of health, relationships, behaviour, experiences of the natural world, and the technologies that shape our contemporary existence are subject to a superfluity of competing, multi-faceted and sometimes incompatible explanations. Widespread confusion about the nature of …
Explanations
styles of explanation in science
Inbunden, 2004
471 kr
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Our lives, states of health, relationships, behaviour, experiences of the natural world, and the technologies that shape our contemporary existence are subject to a superfluity of competing, multi-faceted and sometimes incompatible explanations. Widespread confusion about the nature of …
Hitler's Scientists
Science, War and the Devil's Pact
E-bok, 2013
133 kr
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In a rich and fascinating history John Cornwell tells the epic story of Germany's scientists from the First World War to the collapse of Hitler's Reich. He shows how Germany became the world's Mecca for inventive genius, taking the lion's share of Nobel awards, before Hitler's regime hijacked …
Newman's Unquiet Grave
The Reluctant Saint
E-bok, 2011
215 kr
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John Henry Newman was the most eminent English-speaking Christian thinker and writer of the past two hundred years. James Joyce hailed him the ''greatest'' prose stylist of the Victorian age. A problematic campaign to canonise Newman started fifty years ago. After many delays John Paul II declared …
Newman's Unquiet Grave
The Reluctant Saint
E-bok, 2010
211 kr
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John Henry Newman was the most eminent English-speaking Christian thinker and writer of the past two hundred years. James Joyce hailed him the 'greatest' prose stylist of the Victorian age.A problematic campaign to canonise Newman started fifty years ago. After many delays John Paul II declared him …
Philosophers and God
At the Frontiers of Faith and Reason
Av John Cornwell, Michael McGhee
E-bok, 2009
288 kr
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Public interest in religious debate in the UK and USA has recently been fed by a series of books of popular polemic against theism, religion and the discipline of theology itself. A small industry has grown up around these works-by Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens, and others-but many have complained not …
First and the Last of the Sheffield City Battalion
E-bok, 2020
91 kr
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This is the story of two British men from very different social backgrounds, who both joined a new Pals battalion during World War I.To encourage men to volunteer, the British Army established Pals battalions that allowed men who enlisted together to serve together during the First World War. One …
First and the Last of the Sheffield City Battalion
E-bok, 2020
91 kr
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This is the story of two British men from very different social backgrounds, who both joined a new Pals battalion during World War I.To encourage men to volunteer, the British Army established Pals battalions that allowed men who enlisted together to serve together during the First World War. One …
Earth to Earth
Lives and Violent Deaths of a Devon Farming Family: A True Crime Classic Revisited
Inbunden, 2025
258 kr
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On Tuesday morning, 23rd September 1975, the corpses of three unmarried siblings, last surviving members of the ancient Luxton clan of Winkleigh, North Devon, were found on their remote farm. All three had had their heads blown off. Robbie's cheeks and neck had been stabbed; Frances had a broken …
Earth to Earth
Lives and Violent Deaths of a Devon Farming Family: A True Crime Classic Revisited
Häftad, 2026
155 kr
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A STRONG WORDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025'CHILLING AND THRILLING' JOHN BANVILLE'IRRESISTIBLE STORYTELLING' THE TIMESOn Tuesday morning, 23rd September 1975, the corpses of three unmarried siblings, last surviving members of the ancient Luxton clan of Winkleigh, North Devon, were found on their remote …
Earth to Earth
Lives and Violent Deaths of a Devon Farming Family: A True Crime Classic Revisited
E-bok, 2025
51 kr
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A STRONG WORDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 ''CHILLING AND THRILLING'' JOHN BANVILLE ''IRRESISTIBLE STORYTELLING'' THE TIMES On Tuesday morning, 23rd September 1975, the corpses of three unmarried siblings, last surviving members of the ancient Luxton clan of Winkleigh, North Devon, were found on their …
Church, Interrupted: Havoc & Hope: The Tender Revolt of Pope Francis
Inbunden, 2021
340 kr
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Dark Box
A Secret History of Confession
E-bok, 2014
114 kr
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Would you tell your deepest secrets to a relative stranger? And if you did, would you feel vulnerable? Cleansed? Or perhaps even worse than you did before? Confession has always performed a complex role in society, always created mixed feelings in its practitioners. As an acknowledgement of …
