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This course will examine the growth and development of the largest empire in world history - the British Empire - beginning with the late 15th century Tudor dynasty in England and ending with the death of the Queen-Empress Victoria in 1901.

You want your children strong and confident, especially in the face of life's adversities. You want them to feel a sense of responsibility - a desire to do the right thing without having to be told what to do.

From 1939 to 1946, Americans gathered around their radios to listen to The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, featuring Basil Rathbone as the high-strung crime solver and Nigel Bruce as his phlegmatic assistant, Dr. Watson. Witty, fast-paced, and always surprising, these great radio plays, written by the prolific writing team of Anthony Boucher and Denis Green, are as fresh today as they were then.

Life is too complex for anyone to expect to exist in a perennial state of harmony and bliss. The reality is that in the daily push and pull of our lives there are many sources of conflict and anger. Despite the negative image, however, conflict and anger need not erupt in disaster. They can often be opportunities for developing new skills, furthering personal improvement and growing toward full potential. But you must take advantage of them.

Más allá de las modas y determinados enfoques muy deportivos del yoga, el conocimiento sanador y espiritual de los antiguos yoguis indios sigue siendo valiosísimo en la búsqueda de formas de crecimiento personal y mejora de la salud holística de la sociedad del siglo XXI. En Cuerpo consciente, Denis Criado traza un sólido puente entre la sabiduría del cuerpo y las últimas investigaciones científicas sobre la práctica del yoga para generar una visión integral del desarrollo humano.

Ready yourself for this carefully crafted collection of quotes from some of the greatest minds the world has ever seen! Featuring world-famous playwrights, philosophers, activists, Presidents and physicists, from Churchill and Shakespeare to Gandhi and Einstein, this is an entertaining and inspiring compilation covering everything from Ancient Rome to modern-day Britain.

French Boy / A 1950s Franco-American Childhood is an insightful memoir of a young life both at the margins and at the center of the 1950s American experience. Born in 1947, Denis Ledoux had a mid-twentieth-century youth that almost seems to have been lived in another country and another century, but it is typical of what many Franco-Americans born in his generation experienced. French Boy explores much: the developmental stages of childhood; family dynamics, bilingualism, acculturation and assimilation, alienation and shame. Told by a third-generation Franco, this life story is set in a ...

Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years' absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of money here during the country's civil war, and, curious to see whether good luck will strike twice in the same place, Nair has allowed himself to be drawn back to a region he considers hopeless.

Narrating his new book, bestselling author Denis Waitley offers timeless and timely advice on how to apply his philosophy to the digital age and attain personal and professional excellence today.

In this program Denis Waitley combines timeless, winning strategies with fresh insights into the real world of emerging women. Filled with life stories of women who are peak performers and the core principles they share, it is a compass for self-discovery and achievement. These women display a combination of ideas, enthusiasm, and energy for taking initial success to new heights by turning "stress" into "stretch".

"Comment s'étaient-ils rencontrés ? Par hasard, comme tout le monde. Comment s'appelaient-ils ? Que vous importe ? D'où venaient-ils ? Du lieu le plus prochain. Où allaient-ils ? Est-ce que l'on sait où l'on va ? Que disaient-ils ? Le maître ne disait rien ; et Jacques disait que son capitaine disait que tout ce qui nous arrive de bien et de mal ici-bas était écrit là-haut."

Sous forme d'un dialogue vif et parfois provocateur, "Le neveu de Rameau" de Denis Diderot met en scène Lui, le neveu du compositeur, et Moi : deux facettes de Diderot, le philosophe qui œuvre pour les valeurs universelles et intemporelles, et le matérialiste qui pratique le cynisme et le détournement des valeurs.

This timeless masterpiece has been expanded by the author, offering time-tested principles for achieving authentic, lasting success combined with current research in high-performance behavior and supported by anecdotal evidence from the lives of winners in many different areas of society. It's for you if you have never really succeeded, if you want more of the same success you now enjoy, or if you have made it, lost it, and would like to get it again and keep it.

“I must say, his actions tonight hardly seem the behavior or a sane man!" comments Dr. Watson on the peculiar musings of the babbling butler. Yet this is only the beginning, as Holmes and Watson find themselves drawn into an investigation of not one, but two tragic deaths.

A senseless vicious murder in West London starts a reign of horrific attacks on young women, leaving the police clueless as to the motive behind them. As a pattern emerges, Detectives Andy Martins and Charlotte Campbell begin to piece together a profile of the killer. The killings lead them to a suspect who has a unrelenting motive for killing these women. Despite the killer leaving them clues, they are running out of time to stop him. Can they get a step ahead before his final act that will end his mission?

Horace Everett Hooper - a volatile, self-assured, impulsive, and optimistic American, an autodidact and natural-born salesman - got into the book business at age 16, moved to the Western frontier and on to Chicago, and became hugely successful. With a brilliant adman named Henry Haxton as his partner, he went about buying publishing rights to the Encyclopedia Britannica, a work incredibly distinguished by entries from Charles Darwin, Thomas Malthus, Sir Walter Scott, and more.

“I wonder what other treasures this box contains,” Holmes said to Watson as they searched the belongings of a murdered Hungarian in the Vienna boarding house where they were staying. After a beautiful German pianist led them to the Hungarian, a case of blackmail, a Chinese actor, and a flirtatious soprano forced Holmes to put aside his violin and go undercover—for a date with a strangler.

The final volume of this collection features the work of 20 poets who were active just after the First World War.

A night of horrors is in store for Sherlock Holmes when he disguises himself as Watson and hides in a wax museum—to catch the killer of ten young girls on Hampstead Heath!

“I think John would be very unhappy in the fourth dimension,” said Mrs. Watson, as she and her husband contemplated investing in the new and mysterious time machine called The Paradol Chamber. An irritated Holmes comes along to see the contraption for himself, and he and Watson take a very unscheduled trip—in the company of a corpse!