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In To the Limit, anthropologist and runner Michael Crawley explores the physical, mental, and cultural dimensions of endurance. Traveling from Mexico’s ultramarathon communities to high-altitude Himalayan trails, he examines how different societies understand and push human limits. Through... At last, a user-friendly introduction to Church Latin using church and scriptural documents themselves, allowing the student to build up knowledge with meaningful texts. All paradigms, grammar, and vocabulary are included, and the texts are explained line by line. This authoritative reference work describes in detail the more than 400 Palestinian villages destroyed or depopulated during the 1948 war. The body of the text is devoted to the villages themselves: each village entry comprises statistical data and several narrative sections. Field research by... Latest Lindy Book Entries
To the Limit: The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas
Michael Crawley
Let's Read Latin: Introduction to the Language of the Church
Ralph McInerny
All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948
Walid Khalidi
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