The classic bestselling Chinese novel spanning four decades following the creation of the People's Republic in 1949, translated into English for the first time.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRick and Karen Santorum's inspiring story of life with Bella, their special-needs youngest child Four days after Rick and Karen Santorum welcomed their eighth baby into the world they were given the devastating news that their little girl, Bella, was going to die.
Serving in numerous ministry capacities together, Geoff and Sherry Surratt have valuable lessons and observations to pass along to couples seeking to serve in ministry together.
Timeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher SenecaTo give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do-but it is also the closest you can come to divinity.
A biography of the often misunderstood, yet heroic, Confederate general who sacrificed everything for his native state of Virginia during the Civil War.
Raised in a broken family and emotionally overlooked, Sherry Gore grew up without a solid foundation, a prisoner of her own poor choices, and at times without hope.
The first book to present America's most controversial president in his own words across his entire career, this unique collection of Richard Nixon's most important writings dramatically demonstrates why he has had such a profound impact on American life.
What does it take to go from growing up in a Mississippi housing project to becoming a master sergeant and a celebrity chef serving in the White House under four United States presidents?
Bobby Kennedy's last campaignan homage to a leader who might have changed history and a reconstruction of the conspiracy to stop him, in a magisterial feat of epic investigative poetry.
This inspiring biography explores the life and faith of Saint Francis of Assisi, the thirteenth-century Italian mystic who founded the Franciscan order.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRick and Karen Santorum's inspiring story of life with Bella, their special-needs youngest child Four days after Rick and Karen Santorum welcomed their eighth baby into the world they were given the devastating news that their little girl, Bella, was going to die.
The true story of a friendship between two very different men: Founding Father Ben Franklin and famed preacher of the Great Awakening George Whitefield.
Why it's wrong to single out religious liberty for special legal protectionsThis provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory-why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse?
Diez años después de su análisis con Sigmund Freud, la poeta Hilda Doolittle se sumergió en las notas que había tomado luego de cada sesión y escribió Tributo a Freud.
Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand.
This is the story of James Capen Adams, a mountain man born in 1807 who brought grizzlies to the city of San Francisco, and then New York, for exhibition.
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.
The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century familyThey were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Australians formed what was known as acclimatisation societies"e; to "e;enhance their barren forests"e; and released red and fallow deer from Europe and sambar and hog deer fromAsia, as well as rabbits, hares, and foxes from various locales.
Diese kurzen Novellen schildern schicksalhafte Begegnungen, Leben, die durch eine mörderische Politik aus der Bahn geworfen wurden, Schrecken des Krieges, die unzählige Existenzen zerstören, das Gift der Ideologien, die Menschen ins Verderben stürzen, das Böse, das uns bedroht, wenn wir nicht auf der Hut bleiben, das ist es, was diese wenigen Novellen zeigen wollen.
WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARDNow a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period.
Libro autobiografico en que el autor nos descubre su vida, de donde salio la fuerza para que un muchacho de pueblo, sin apenas estudios, se convirtiera en un destacado representante del apostolado seglar en la Iglesia Catolica.
Los relatos obtenidos en diferentes investigaciones cualitativas, que fueron realizadas principalmente en Ecuador y España, dan cuenta de la violencia del sistema sociocultural en los ámbitos que van de lo íntimo a lo éxtimo: violencia económica y sexual; violencia en el sistema educativo, en el sistema de salud y hacia la imagen corporal; en el transporte público y en la participación en contextos político-institucionales.
