Eye of the Needle

Eye of the Needle
Title Eye of the Needle PDF eBook
Author Ken Follett
Publisher Penguin
Pages 354
Release 2017-10-17
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0143132040

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The worldwide phenomenon from the bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, A Column of Fire, and The Evening and the Morning His code name was “The Needle.” He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence—a master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood, and the object of the most desperate manhunt in history. . . . But his fate lay in the hands of a young and vulnerable English woman, whose loyalty, if swayed, would assure his freedom—and win the war for the Nazis. . . .

Through the Eye of a Needle

Through the Eye of a Needle
Title Through the Eye of a Needle PDF eBook
Author Peter Brown
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 806
Release 2013-09-02
Genre History
ISBN 1400844533

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A sweeping intellectual history of the role of wealth in the church in the last days of the Roman Empire Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar of late antiquity. Peter Brown examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all evil. Drawing on the writings of major Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome, Brown examines the controversies and changing attitudes toward money caused by the influx of new wealth into church coffers, and describes the spectacular acts of divestment by rich donors and their growing influence in an empire beset with crisis. He shows how the use of wealth for the care of the poor competed with older forms of philanthropy deeply rooted in the Roman world, and sheds light on the ordinary people who gave away their money in hopes of treasure in heaven. Through the Eye of a Needle challenges the widely held notion that Christianity's growing wealth sapped Rome of its ability to resist the barbarian invasions, and offers a fresh perspective on the social history of the church in late antiquity.

Alice Through the Needle's Eye

Alice Through the Needle's Eye
Title Alice Through the Needle's Eye PDF eBook
Author Gilbert Adair
Publisher
Pages 184
Release 1985
Genre Children's stories in English, 1945- - Texts
ISBN 9780330291583

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Vervolg op "Alice in Wonderland" van Lewis Carroll door een bewonderaar en navolger.

The Needle's Eye (Classic Reprint)

The Needle's Eye (Classic Reprint)
Title The Needle's Eye (Classic Reprint) PDF eBook
Author Arthur Train
Publisher Forgotten Books
Pages 430
Release 2018-01-11
Genre
ISBN 9780428861605

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Excerpt from The Needle's Eye Silently as spins the earth around the sun, so spins the world Of Wall Street about the banking house of Graham Co. Through its brazen doors one steps directly from the clatter and crash of Broadway into a region of supernal calm. As in a vacuum one stands behind its plate-glass windows and watches the sound less crowds go hurrying by like figures on the mirror of a camera obscura. The repose and dignity of the gods are here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Threads of Life

Threads of Life
Title Threads of Life PDF eBook
Author Clare Hunter
Publisher Abrams
Pages 352
Release 2019-10-15
Genre History
ISBN 168335771X

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This globe-spanning history of sewing and embroidery, culture and protest, is “an astonishing feat . . . richly textured and moving” (The Sunday Times, UK). In 1970s Argentina, mothers marched in headscarves embroidered with the names of their “disappeared” children. In Tudor, England, when Mary, Queen of Scots, was under house arrest, her needlework carried her messages to the outside world. From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. Clare Hunter, master of the craft, threads her own narrative as she takes us over centuries and across continents—from medieval France to contemporary Mexico and the United States, and from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland—to celebrate the universal beauty and power of sewing.

Sherlock Holmes and the Needle's Eye

Sherlock Holmes and the Needle's Eye
Title Sherlock Holmes and the Needle's Eye PDF eBook
Author Len Bailey
Publisher Thomas Nelson
Pages 336
Release 2013-05-06
Genre Religion
ISBN 0849965055

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Embark on a journey through the Old and New Testament with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson as they explore exotic and spice-laden places in search of clues. The detective and the doctor travel back in time with the help of a Moriarty-designed time machine to investigate ten Bible destinations, unlocking clues to ten Bible mysteries. The most fascinating crime cases are those that are already solved, those that have been investigated by the police and brought to a swift, satisfying, and almost inevitable conclusion. So it is with Bible stories which the reader may consider familiar and unremarkable. But under close scrutiny these stories give up their hidden clues, their long kept secrets. Like a jewel newly polished, they sparkle and shine with a fresh, introspective light. While traveling back in time to witness certain scenes, Holmes and Watson unravel ten different Biblical mysteries, including the following: · The Hanging Tree: Why did Ahithophel hang himself? · Righteous Blood is Red: Is Zechariah the son of Berekiah or Jehoiada in Matthew 23? · You Miss, You Die: Why did David take five stones against Goliath? · Dead Man Walking: Why did Jesus delay in coming to Lazarus in John 11?

Through the Eye of a Needle

Through the Eye of a Needle
Title Through the Eye of a Needle PDF eBook
Author Hal Clement
Publisher Gateway
Pages 150
Release 2011-09-29
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0575110252

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Time was running out for Bob Kinnaird. Without much warning, the Hunter - the green protoplasmic alien that lived inside him and cured all his ills - had suddenly become his destroyer. Day by day Bob grew weaker and weaker, but only specialists from the Hunter's distant world would know what was wrong with him and, more importantly, how to save him. But the only way searchers from his planet could find him was to locate his missing spaceship . . . a spaceship that had crashed beneath the ocean years before, its location still very much a mystery. Once again leading an investigation against time - as he had done so many years before - the Hunter knew he had to find comrades and find them fast . . . before someone murdered his best friend.