A Long Walk, a Gradual Ascent tells the one-hundred-year story of the development of the Friends Church (INELA) among the Aymara peoples of the Bolivian Andes.
Constance Markievicz (1868-1927), born to the privileged Protestant upper class in Ireland, embraced suffrage before scandalously leaving for a bohemian life in London and then Paris.
Through moving interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, Kristen Monroe casts new light on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice?
This is the first of five volumes of a definitive history of analytic philosophy from the invention of modern logic in 1879 to the end of the twentieth century.
In this book Dan Dunn proposes that the biblical theme of life is extremely important and thus provides a helpful foundation for the theory and practice of evangelism.
Galilée est l’un des scientifiques et philosophes les plus connus au monde pour avoir bravé l’autorité de l’église très puissante à son époque ; et opérer la révolution qui devait changer la face des sciences.
Records of a Family of Engineers is a memoir by Robert Louis Stevenson that tells the story of his father's family and their work as engineers in Scotland.
The first book in the Cosmic Trigger trilogy reveals the enlightening secret of the Illuminati while presenting the daunting metaphor of Chapel Perilous where the unprepared can get lost in a spirited journey.
As a child facing the fiery mayhem of Germany's raging World War, then moving to the vibrant streets of fifties and sixties Chicago, where prosperity is a possibility for everyone, Frank Nadell will rise above his tough past, overcoming prejudice and obstacles, to become one of the Windy City's most successful restaurateurs.
Darlene Miller has a second book about the RV lifestyle which is full of amusing anecdotes, jokes, adventures and chuckhole experiences while traveling throughout the USA and Canada.
An honest and deeply reported account of five women and the opportunities and frustrations they face in the year following their graduation from an elite university.
The Memoirs of John Douglas Forbes encompass watching the streetlamp lighters of San Francisco in 1912, to visiting the Royal Crescent in Bath in 2001, among many other memories.
En diciembre de 1992, Gerardo López Laguna participó en una marcha de 500 personas desarmadas, que atravesaron el cerco de la ciudad sitiada de Sarajevo para llevar un mensaje de paz a las víctimas de la guerra.
A story about the rigors of being selected for U S Air Force Pilot Training and the 18 month path through rigorous physical and mental obstacles designed to produce only the best individuals to earn and qualify for Pilot Wings.
Tout au long des 3690 km de la Volga, suivons pas à pas un marcheur obstiné et curieux qui, durant quatre mois, va poser un regard inédit sur la vie ordinaire du peuple russe dont il découvrira peu à peu l'hospitalité celle de la vraie vie de la Russie profonde.
Soixante-dix-huit lettres pour la plupart inédites, adressées à Voltaire ou envoyées par lui, issues du fonds de l'Institut et Musée Voltaire de Genève.
