Life of Contrasts, Paperback

Balint Abady is forced to part from the beautiful and unhappily married Adrienne Uzdy. This title contrasts a life of privilege and corruption with...

Reducere. 40 years A Virgin is a book about a woman's decision to wait until marriage to have sex. Melika explores her beliefs about purity when she believed...

Charlie Chaplin is the greatest icon in the history of cinema, who lived one of the most dramatic rags to riches stories ever told. Chaplin's life ...

Reducere. In this thought-provoking book, Frank Smith explains how schools and educational authorities systematically obstruct the powerful inherent learning...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gianluigi PasqualeTranslator: Marsha Ph. D. Daigle-WilliamsonOne of the most popular and beloved saints of the twentieth ce...

Reducere. Barb's surrender principles free us from the need to control others and from anger or frustration over life's disappointing and hurtful circumstanc...

Italy's famous sights are all to be found here - St Peter's in Rome, Naples with Vesuvius smouldering in the background and canals of Venice. In th...

Are you burning brightly-or burning out-in your spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional life? Do you find yourself being torn between work and f...

DescriptionMany years after the death of her grandmother, Lulah Ellender inherited a curious object - a book of handwritten lists. On the face of i...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Steven J. JensenLiving the Good Life presents a brief introduction to virtue and vice, self-control and weakness, misery an...

Reducere. An unflinching look at unemployment and life among the working classes in Britain during the Great Depression, The Road to Wigan Pier offers an in-...

DescriptionOrphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur and Ma...

This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec li...

Based on Philip Yancey's Gold Medallion Book of the Year on the life of Christ, The Jesus I Never Knew is a six-session small group Bible study (DV...

Professor Carroll Quigley was a top American historian and theorist on the evolution of civilizations. He believed that knowledge cannot be divided...

Reducere. "This inspiring book chronicles the life of Jerry Cummings, the legendary lead tenor for the ever-famous Harold Melvin &the Blue Notes. It details ...

Insight Guides: all you need to inspire every step of your journey.An in-depth book, now with free app and eBook.This new edition of Insight Guide ...

Reducere. Elmer Ghostkeeper has created a powerful piece of writing in Spirit Gifting. It provides a new path through a traditional Metis worldview to holist...

Nestling in the foothills of the Himalayas, Nepal is a land of contrasts and incongruities--not least in the variety of its cultural, ethnic, and r...

DescriptionWho was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photogr...

Reducere. Autobiography of Mark Twain (1907) is a collection of autobiographical writings by American humorist Mark Twain. Dictated toward the end of his lif...

What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this life, why should we bother tr...

DescriptionA farm boy from the mountains of North Carolina, Rufus Edmisten could not have been prepared for the halls of power in Washington, D.C.,...

Reducere. "Seton, at her best, has a gaudy vitality all her own, and a sure sense of theatre. This reader for one, enjoyed The Turquoise enormously." -- New ...

Contributor(s): Author: Joseph ConradEditor: J. H. StapeIntroduction by: J. H. StapeA Penguin Classics edition of "Typhoon, " "Amy Foster, " "Falk,...

Reducere. "A warmhearted and insightful tribute to the author of Cross Creek and The Yearling, and it's the story of Parker herself, a tough-minded Floridian...

Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Th...

Reducere. "Winter in Taos" starkly contrasts Luhan's memoirs, published in four volumes and inspired by Marcel Proust's "Remembrances of Things Past." They f...

The seeds of a cross-cultural friendship were first sowed in 1955 when author Pat Lindgren-Kurtz's family first met indigenous Mountain Maidu baske...

Reducere. As a child we hear stories from our grandparents, later we read them throughout one's life from various sources. These stories and experiences are ...

DescriptionThe question of what living is for--of what one should care about and why--is the most important question a person can ask. Yet under th...

Reducere. Before the turn of the century, while the rich in Madrid, Paris and Rome capped their sumptuous dinners with sips of Puerto Rico's exquisite black ...

History and Culture of Vanuatu Island. People and Tradition. Vanuatu is a Pacific island adventure far beyond any notions of cruise-ship ports and ...

Reducere. MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY Marriages are imploding all around us. Homes are fracturing. Families are shipwrecked. And one of the leading causes is sexual...

Reducere. Nearly 200 years ago, a teenager dreamt of a scientist who experimented with restoring life to the dead. Encouraged by her literary-minded friends,...

Reducere. God's Hand in HistoryInterviews and the L'Abri lecturesHans Rookmaaker: An Open Life, by Laurel GasqueRookmaaker was a man of many contrasts: provo...

Reducere. The fifteen-year-old who was the very first immigrant of any nationality to land at the famous handling station at Ellis Island, New York has now b...

DescriptionJohn Edmund Haggai, founder and president of the Haggai Institute for Advanced Leadership Training, says the Bible's instruction for suc...

Reducere. Farm Seasons is a story about growing up on a small dairy farm in Waterford, CT in the middle of the 20th century. The author tells what life was l...

Reducere. DescriptionThe thrill of a new bird song ... the serene benediction of a quiet sundown ... an hour of reflection by a woodland stream. These are th...

Reducere. As Elissa Washuta makes the transition from college kid to independent adult, she finds herself overwhelmed by the calamities piling up in her brai...

Reducere. In Warring Visions, Thy Phu explores photography from dispersed communities throughout Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora, both during and after t...

Reducere. This is a colorful and dramatic story for youth about the life of John Henry Newman, famous British priest, preacher and pastor. To the Birmingham ...

Reducere. Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twenti...

Reducere. Among the few truly experimental composers in our cultural history, Harry Partch's life (1901-1974) and music embody most completely the quintessen...

Reducere. DescriptionWritten by a survivor of mind control and ritual abuse who is also a therapist, this memoir exposes the existence and practices of organ...

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From the second century AD to the conversion of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, Robin Lane Fox's "Pagans and Christians in the Mediterran...

Reducere. These 20 postcards are a declaration of love to the city of light. Lapin, sketcher and illustrator, offers a sample of his talent to capture those ...

Reducere. The books of Joshua and Judges take you on a journey of contrasts - great courage and knee-shaking cowardice, enduring love and heartless infidelit...

Reducere. Search the internet The words triumphant and surrender are not typically found together. After all, winners triumph, and losers surrender, right? I...

DescriptionSeville is the capital of Spain's Andalusian region and is the life and soul of the nation. Enchanted with effortlessly stylish bars and...

Who can afford not to understand the USA? Many facets of American life have been embraced around the world, yet the sense of "just like in the movi...

Reducere. An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day--and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it's also people--...

Kawaii--so cute it hurts You probably know this already, but the superpopular manga genre of Kawaii is everywhereFrom Hello Kitty to Pokemon, these...

Reducere. My friend Peter Shabad quotes Soren Kierkegard, who said that life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. In thinking abo...

Reducere. It is not enough to hear God's voice-but we must obey. Obedience is a part of the honor we owe to God. Obedience carries in it, the life-blood of r...

Reducere. We have reduced all virtues to one: being nice. And, we measure Jesus by our standard instead of measuring our standard by Him. For the Christian, ...

Reducere. DescriptionIt's 1977. Bannen, Georgia, nestled amid pine forests, is rife with contrasts: natural beauty and racial tension, small-town charm and l...

Reducere. Once I Was Cool contrasts past aspirations with the mess and magic of the present. In her younger days, essayist Megan Stielstra saw Jane's Addicti...