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Between Inca Walls A Peace Corps Memoir


Free Download Evelyn Kohl LaTorre, "Between Inca Walls: A Peace Corps Memoir"
English | ISBN: 1631527177 | 2020 | 328 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
At twenty-one, Evelyn is naïve about life and love. Raised in a small Montana town, she moves at age sixteen with her devout Catholic family to California. There, she is drawn to Latino culture when she works among the migrant workers. During the summer of her junior year in college, Evelyn travels to a small Mexican town to help set up a school and a library―an experience that whets her appetite for a life full of both purpose and adventure.

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The Light Between Us Stories From Heaven. Lessons for the Living. [Audiobook]


Free Download The Light Between Us: Stories From Heaven. Lessons for the Living. (Audiobook)
English | October 27, 2015 | ASIN: B015RPXAGI | MP3@64 kbps | 8h 0m | 209.63 MB
Author: Laura Lynne Jackson
Narrator: Laura Lynne Jackson

For readers of Proof of Heaven, the astonishing story of a woman with an extraordinary psychic gift – and a powerful message from the Other Side that can help us to live more beautifully in the here and now.

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Stories between Christianity and Islam Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond


Free Download Reyhan Durmaz, "Stories between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond"
English | ISBN: 0520386469 | 2022 | 276 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Stories between Christianity and Islam offers an original and nuanced understanding of Christian-Muslim relations that shifts focus from discussions of superiority, conflict, and appropriation to the living world of connectivity and creativity. Here, the late antique and medieval Near East is viewed as a world of stories shared by Christians and Muslims. Public storytelling was a key feature for these late antique Christian and early Islamic communities, where stories of saints were used to interpret the past, comment on the present, and envision the future.

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Jeanne Mammen Art Between Resistance and Conformity in Modern Germany, 1916-1950


Free Download Jeanne Mammen: Art Between Resistance and Conformity in Modern Germany, 1916-1950 (Visual Cultures and German Contexts) by Camilla Smith
English | November 17, 2022 | ISBN: 1350239380 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 16.7 MB
Jeanne Mammen’s watercolour images of the gender-bending ‘new woman’ and her candid portrayals of Berlin’s thriving nightlife appeared in some of the most influential magazines of the Weimar Republic and are still considered characteristic of much of the ‘glitter’ of that era. This book charts how, once the Nazis came into power, Mammen instead created ‘degenerate’ paintings and collages, translated prohibited French literature and sculpted in clay and plaster-all while hidden away in her tiny studio apartment in the heart of Berlin’s fashionable west end.

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