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Until his assassination by US drone strike in January 2020, commander Qassem Soleimani was one of the most powerful men in Iran and the military spearhead for Iranian foreign policy, enacting the wishes of the country's Supreme Leader in the region. A widely popular but also feared maverick operator, he helped to establish the Islamic Republic as a major force in the Middle East, with interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. This was a long way from where he began as a youth, living on the margins in a country ruled by a monarch supported by the United States.

Christopher Lee's highly-acclaimed and award-winning BBC Radio 4 history of the British Empire. Britain had the biggest empire the world has ever known. At one time a quarter of the global land mass was British. Over a third of the world was insured at Lloyds. At his coronation, more than 400...

With such classic novels as Orphan Star and The Tar-Aiym-Krang, New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has captivated readers with his brilliantly imagined Humanx Commonwealth, the interstellar empire where intelligent aliens and humans live side by side. Now Foster takes us back to...

Imagine a world without bees, butterflies, and flowering plants. That was Earth 125 million years ago. Turn back the clock 400 million years, and there were no trees. At 450 million years in the past, even the earliest insects had not yet developed. And looking back 500 million years, the land was devoid of life, which at that time flourished in a profusion of strange forms in the oceans. These and other major turning points are the amazing story of evolution.

The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil discoveries are often hailed in headlines as revealing the elusive transitional step, the moment when we stopped being "animal" and started being "human". In The Accidental Species, Henry Gee, longtime paleontology editor at Nature, takes aim at this misleading notion.

The War had left him a shattered man, but its toll was not nearly so great as losing the love of his life. Few understand Elliot’s anguish at losing Nadine. He came back from the War a shattered and lonely man. But his return to the Eliot family refuge on England’s Hampshire coast is gradually pushing back the dark waters of soul and spirit.

¿Qué puedes encontrar en esta versión en audiolibro? Todo el texto bíblico del Antiguo Testamento con introducciones a cada uno. Un libro para escuchar en cualquier parte: en trayectos, haciendo deporte, paseando, en ratos de oración...

Rebosante de magia recién descubierta, una joven desafía los designios del destino en la esperada continuación de La tejedora del viento Rhya Fleetwood está harta de ser un peón en los juegos de guerra de otros. La nueva Tejedora del Viento quiere -necesita- dominar su magia antes de que le...

Las tres amigas han quedado para una cita secreta al amanecer, una reunión para la que no puede venir Rebeca, la hija de Sara, pero esta se ha enterado y las sigue por el campo para descubrir qué van a hacer y lo que le ocultan. Lo que no sabe es que las pijas también las siguen y que tienen planeado gastarles una broma que las dejará peladas.

Despite the “crinkled pink petals strewn in the path of those who would have preferred red,” four generations of Eliots have survived the War and are moving forward. The family’s remarkable matriarch Lucilla is still with them, though she’s facing the dark night of the soul. All is turned on its head with the arrival of Sebastian, another survivor of WWII. He has a story far more painful than any of the Eliots. While with them, he wrestles with questions about his own disconnected existence.

Stockholm idag. 19-årige Sebba ­kommer ut från häktet efter ett misslyckat butiksrån och fortsätter plöja en krokig väg genom den moderna gängbrottslighetens undervegetation. Samtidigt utreder polisen mordet på en känd kriminaljournalist – ett fall som visar sig ha koppling både...

Efter en längre sjukskrivning återvänder polisen Robert Lilja i tjänst. Privat lever han i en relation med sjöpolisen Rosmarie Rosie Forsman och de har länge kämpat för att få barn. Robert får ansvar för ett nyöppnat lokalt poliskontor i Norduppland där tillvaron präglas av...

Robert Traill's 'Vindication' was written to defend ministers from the accusation that preaching justification by faith alone would lead to antinomianism—believing that God's law holds no binding authority for those in Christ. Traill argued that the imputed righteousness of Christ is the only...

'One of the best Nordic Noir writers' Guardian A trip behind the Iron Curtain would change their lives forever . . . It begins in 1969. Six young people arrive in Uppsala, Sweden. Different circumstances push the three young couples together and, over the course of a few years, they become...

Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various outcomes - good and bad - are possible. Yet our approach to the future is characterized by short-term thinking, polarizing debates, alarmist rhetoric, and pessimism. In this short, exhilarating book, renowned scientist and best-selling author Martin Rees argues that humanity’s prospects depend on our taking a very different approach to planning for tomorrow.

This time our intrepid explorer hikes the breathtaking 186 miles of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. A stunning and dramatic landscape of soaring rocky clifftops and sprawling white sands. Join him as he encounters a plethora of amazing wildlife from peregrine falcons to razorbills, from seals to wild ponies. Not to mention the dashed impressive bracing vistas and stormy seas, of course.

By any standard, this is a classic of Christian theology. Composed by St. Athanasius in the fourth century, it expounds with simplicity the theological vision defended at the councils of Nicaea and Constantinople: that the Son of God himself became "fully human, so that we might become god."

When Peter Pan flies through the Darling Children's nursery window one night, he is nearly captured and makes a hasty escape, leaving behind his shadow. Returning with the fairy Tinker Bell to reclaim it, he wakes up Wendy, John and Michael, and whisks them away to the magical shores of...

The war for survival has left scars that even time can't heal. With his family finally safe in his grove, Elijah Hart turns his gaze east to the city of Valoria and its lord—the man who murdered his sister. Consumed by loss and driven by rage, he's determined to bring justice to a world that's forgotten the meaning of mercy. But revenge is a hunger that devours all reason, and the line between justice and wrath grows thinner with each passing day.

With World War II at an end, Charles Hayward is finally free to marry the woman he loves, Sophia Leonides. However, she refuses - the unexplained death of her grandfather, wealthy businessman Aristide Leonides, draws her back to the suffocating environment of her family home. Charles follows...