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  • A Story of Six Rivers

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  • Nature

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  • Salmon

    de Peter Coates ...
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  • Squirrel Nation

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  • The Fundamentals of Radiation Thermometers

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  • Ibn 'Arabi and Modern Thought

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    Discover how the profound metaphysics of twelfth-century mystic Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi directly engages with modern philosophy, psychology, and contemporary epistemology.Ibn 'Arabi and Modern Thought: The History of Taking Metaphysics Seriously presents an open dialogue between classical Sufi wisdom and Western theoretical culture. Peter Coates examines how Ibn 'Arabi's central doctrine of wahdat al ... Leia mais

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  • Environment and History

    The taming of nature in the USA and South Africa

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    The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. It was originally published in The Strand Magazine in 1904 with illustrations by Sidney Paget.Mr. Cyril Overton of Trinity College, Cambridge, comes to Holmes seeking his help in Godfrey Staunton's ... Leia mais

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