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41) Building Babel
Publisher
Seventh Art Releasing Exclusive
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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The story of Sharif El-Gamal, developer of the 'Ground Zero Mosque' in Lower Manhattan. With unfettered and exclusive access to Sharif's life and family over the course of two years, the film tracks Sharif's struggle to bring his project, a controversial Muslim community center two blocks from the site of Ground Zero, to fruition. Told in observational style, Building Babel is a portrait of American identity ten years on from September 11th - who...
42) Senlin ascends
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Series
Books of Babel volume 1
Language
English
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"The first book in the stunning and strange debut fantasy series that's receiving major praise from some of fantasy's biggest authors such as Mark Lawrence and Django Wexler. The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel in the world. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower holds unnumbered ringdoms, warring and peaceful, stacked one on the other like the layers of a cake. It is a world of geniuses and tyrants, of airships and steam engines, of unusual...
43) Finding Babel
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Finding Babel follows the grandson of famed Russian-Jewish author Isaac Babel as he searches for answers to better understand the enigmatic man he never met. Babel's writings, considered masterpieces of Russian literature, challenged the reality of life under rising Soviet totalitarianism, leading to his execution as part of Stalin's purges in 1940. Andrei Malaev-Babel journeys through locations deeply tied to the life and writings of his grandfather,...
44) Student of Babel
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At an isolated and forgotten school where no one ages, an unusual case of plagiarism has occurred. Geoffrey has seemingly copied a story he has never seen before.
As the teachers and students try to unravel what has happened, a team of outsiders is brought in to help. Far from providing clarity, their arrival only deepens the mystery and new secrets are brought to light that threaten the very existence of the school.
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A vast man-made resort island offers permanent relief to a drought-stricken continent. As corporate interests clash with archeological concerns, dangerous forces threaten the future of the island -- and the globe. As a legendary deity seems to awaken, mankind's hopes rest in the hands of a journalist, a janitor, and a travel agent.
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History is a great teacher. We learn from our mistakes, our failures, and our successes. For those who believe that the Bible records the history of mankind, it is full of lessons for the world to use to correct undesirable behavior. Genesis chapter eleven records the events surrounding the building of a tower in what is called Babylon today. It was to be a monument for the people doing the work. God commended their zealousness but was left out. As...
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Español
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Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel, mejor conocido como Isaac Babel fue un periodista y escritor soviético de origen judío. A pesar de ser un idealista defensor del marxismo y el leninismo, fue arrestado, torturado y ejecutado durante el Gran Purgatorio de Stalin. "Cuentos de Odessa," una colección publicada en 1931, es una selección de hermosos cuentos de Babel cuyas narrativas tienen lugar en la ciudad de Odessa. Babel describe, entre otras historias,...
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Enslaved by a war-dragon of Babel, young Will evacuates to the Tower of Babel where he meets the confidence trickster,Nat Whilk, and becomes a hero to the homeless living in the tunnels under the city. As he rises from an underling to a politician, Will falls in love with a high-elven woman he dare not aspire to.--From publisher description.
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In a society mired in godlessness and humanism, parents are given the high calling of raising children who will know the Truth, live the Truth, and take the Truth into the next generations. In Creation to Babel, today's Christian family will find a unique commentary on Genesis 1 - 11 to ensure the biblical foundation is established in their children's hearts.
Perfect for family devotions and Bible studies, Creation to Babel:
Ken Ham, founder and...
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English
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Lone Sloane returns in an epic odyssey across the galaxy to find the answer to the mysteries of the universe, battling aliens, robots, and dark gods that stand in his way!
After a long slumber, Sloane awakes to stop the resurgence of an old enemy and the threat of a looming empire, all the while joining the race to find the mythological Babel, a city of legend that promises riches and wisdom beyond belief.
Written by Xavier Cazaux-Zago and illustrated...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he'll enroll in Oxford University's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation, also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working, the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using...
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Français
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Dans le chaos de la guerre entre la Chirubie et le Polinor, un soldat chirubien nommé Babel vole au secours de Maria, une des nombreuses victimes de ce combat. Étant resté près d'elle, il devient un déserteur et fait la rencontre d'une jeune femme qui bouleversera sa vie. Tandis que cette dernière s'expatrie et écrit un journal, lui, de son cté, tente de rejoindre sa famille. Les aléas de la guerre leur permettront-ils de se retrouver et...
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Español
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Los niños de Babel es una colección de historias reales recopiladas por diferentes rincones del mundo. El hilo conductor es la infancia, pues son experiencias contadas por los mismos niños que las protagonizan, acercándonos sus paisajes, culturas, tradiciones y costumbres.
A través de sus propios ojos descubriremos experiencias como la guerra en Ucrania o Yemen; el drama de la emigración en Marruecos, Yibuti o Venezuela; las culturas y costumbres...
55) Babel Tower
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Series
Frederica Potter series volume 3
Language
English
Description
In England, a woman marries into the landed gentry, only to find the life stifling. When she tries to renew with her old milieu, her husband objects. Drama follows drama, ending in a custody battle for their only child. A look at British society.
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English
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Love after Babel is a brilliant new poetry collection by Dalit poet Chandramohan S, a highly charged political treatise. Chandramohan's position as a Dalit writer illuminates his treatment of caste-based oppression, while also creating a sense of radical solidarity between various marginalized identities in contemporary Indian society through his focus on other forms of oppression, namely on experiences of Islamophobia, gender based violence and racism....
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What place do the faithful have in a faithless world? Imagine you woke up in a cold sweat because you had a vision of the future but couldn't see how you fit into it? How would you find your purpose in it all?
A self-marooned recluse, Dr. Noah McAdams thought he had escaped a world gone wrong, only to be caught up in the very system he was fleeing. A man of deep regrets, he thought he had buried his past, only to see it resurrected before his very...
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George Steiner's essential tome on linguistics, hailed by the New York Times as a "dazzling inquiry into the possibility of translation" In his classic work, literary critic and scholar George Steiner tackles what he considers the Babel "problem": Why, over the course of history, have humans developed thousands of different languages when the social, material, and economic advantages of a single tongue are obvious? Steiner argues that different cultures'...
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