This book provides a captivating look into the society of the Knights Templar. Brought to you by the author of Freemasons For Dummies, The Templar Code is more than an intriguing cipher or a mysterious symbol – it is the Code by which the Knights Templar lived and died, the Code that bound them together in secrecy, and the Code that inspired them to nearly superhuman feats of courage and endurance.
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11 Great Walking Tours Through the Most Colorful Neighborhoods in Paris. Follow Frommer’s for an up-close and personal look at Paris. Discover the atmospheric and the opulent, the sacred and the profane, the ancient and the avant-garde–everything that makes Paris unique.
Let Frommer’s Take You To: * The birthplace of Paris, the Ile de la Cité, home to two of the world’s most incredible churches * The bohemian Latin Quarter, with vestiges of a Roman bath among café-lined streets * Sacré-Coeur and the beautiful Montmartre, the village on a hill that inspired van Gogh, Renoir, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec * St.Germain and Montparnasse, where you can see the hangouts of Picasso, Sartre, and Man Ray
With easy-to-use directions and maps–and the best places to take a break along the way.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .” With these famous words, Charles Dickens plunges the reader into one of history’s most explosive eras—the French Revolution. From the storming of the Bastille to the relentless drop of the guillotine, Dickens vividly captures the terror and upheaval of that tumultuous period. At the center is the novel’s hero, Sydney Carton, a lazy, alcoholic attorney who, inspired by a woman, makes the supreme sacrifice on the bloodstained streets of Paris.
The life and adventures of the beloved pioneer Ingalls family can be revisited in this new series, My First Little House Books. Large print, concise writing and paintings inspired by Garth Williams help bring Laura and her family alive. Young readers will come to love Laura as much as older children do. Ages 3-8.
100 Ways to Motivate Yourself gives you 100 different thinking tools for accessing your most spirited and creative self. It is a book that you can turn to anywhere and read for just two or three minutes and find your whole day lifted up with energy and purpose. Written like a psychological thriller, 100 Ways has been used by everyone from professional football coaches to homemakers to engage the brain at the deepest and most inspired level in order to access the fire of the human spirit on command.