Savage God. A Study of Suicide, Paperback - Al Alvarez

An intelligent and sympathetic analysis of one of the true taboos of modern life.

Sixteen-year-old Kevin Colvin, burdened by his parent's fighting, the recent death of his best friend and slipping grades, despairs that he's just ...

Poet, critic, novelist, rock-climber and poker-player, Al Alvarez, now in his 80s, chronicles what it is to grow old with humour and fierce honesty...

Reducere. Profoundly moving and empowering: in this book, Joni Woelfel bestows hope and courage on those seeking guidance, solace, and support in the wake of...

Reducere. Suicide has reached an alarming level in our society, especially among teenagers and young adults. Based on the author's more than thirty years exp...

Reducere. Al Alvarez touched down in Las Vegas one hot day in 1981, a dedicated amateur poker player but a stranger to the town and its crazy ways. For three...

Reducere. The doctrine of election is one of the most difficult in all of Christian theology. It is also one of the most prominent doctrines, for the electio...

Reducere. Honorable Mention, Inspirational Category20th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards "This book is invaluable for its brevity, wealth of...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Brandy LidbeckAfter a suicide, loved ones painfully struggle to make sense of the unexplainable tragedy. The Gift of Second...

Reducere. Randi Jensen has brought us a fascinating and illustrative view of suicide from the inside. After 24 years struggling with her own suicidality she ...

There would be no need for sociology if everyone understood the social frameworks within which we operate. That we do have a connection to the larg...

Reducere. "There was 'no god more present' than Dionysos: that is, out of all the ancient gods Dionysos was one of the few who people felt that they could re...

Shaun O'Gorman knows what it's like to suffer from PTSD, depression and to battle with suicide. He served a 13-year career as a Police Officer incl...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean LeClercqThe Love of Learning and the Desire for God is composed of a series of lectures given to young monks at the In...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. ...

Reducere. What did "Son of God, " "Messiah, " and "Lord, " mean to the first Christians when they used these words to describe their beliefs about Jesus? In ...

Reducere. Find Hope and Peace with an Intimate Pursuit of God*Top 10 Amazon Best Seller*"Tozer wrote this book in 1948, but if anything, it is more relevant ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Alice (Author) BirchNumber of pages: 256Collection: Modern ClassicsPublication date: 2021Dimensions:...

DescriptionBeyond Surviving is a raw, beautiful, and inspirational collection of stories written by people who have survived the loss of a loved on...

Reducere. The third book in Morris Berman's much acclaimed trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, Wandering God continues his earlier work which ga...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ana-Marie RizzutoNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 1981Dimensions: 226 x 152 x 15Cover typ...

Reducere. A Study of Hands is an attempt to remove male intimacy from its sheath. It is an incision into Bodney's last relationship, as well as the ongoing o...

Reducere. A Study Guide for Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things, " excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide include...

Reducere. "There's still so much silence and underlying stigma that surrounds suicide and self-harm. Thank you for being so brave, where others, I think, are...

Reducere. In this electrifying debut collection of poems, Dillon Thomas Jones demonstrates that he's a poet to be reckoned with. A brilliant interrogation of...

Reducere. In this verse-by-verse study of the Book of Hebrews, Jen Wilkin explores how God "provided something better for us" in the person of Jesus Christ (...

Reducere. A Study Guide for Ntozake Shange's "for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, " excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Dra...

Reducere. During a train trip from Chicago to Texas in the late 1940s, A.W. Tozer began to write "The Pursuit of God." He wrote all night, and when the train...

Reducere. A landmark of twentieth-century criticism that provided new standards and new techniques for examining literature. "Richards is a master of the psy...

A tale of quiet lives in an early 19th-century English provincial town which engages the reader at every level, from the author's chronicle of ever...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Criminologists in the Media presents the results of a cross-national study examining the structures that shape criminologists' contributions to new...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Dr Robert (The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center New York NY) MichelsIllustration(s): Illustrations, black a...

In his third book Chaim Bentorah finds that after having discovered and exploring God's heart, He found himself moving more in an Eastern or Semiti...

Reducere. Jesus Christ is still working miracles. I found myself at the point of suicide after using drugs and alcohol. At the point of insanity, Christ left...

Reducere. Sometimes the voices that speak most clearly in the present are those that echo from the past. So it is in this Christian classic by the late pasto...

Reducere. This brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further ...

With new illustrations and a brilliant original introduction by New Yorker writer and author of My Life in Middlemarch Rebecca Mead, the Restless C...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Lee (Associate Professor, University of South Florida) BraverNumber of pages: 370Collection: The MIT PressPublic...

Her version of (his)story. A study of Philippa Gregory's Plantagenet Novels - Cristina Mihaela Nistor

Wait for the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, for the LORD - Psalm 27: 14Too little time is given to wai...

Reducere. Bouleau's classic illustrated work examines the essential reliance of European painting tradition on the golden mean and other geometrical patterns...

DescriptionIn Poetic Closure, distinguished literary scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores the provocative question: How do poems end? To answe...

Reducere. In his early Spiritual life Arthur Pink a devout dispensationalist. His views started to change in the late 1920's and in his book A Study of Dispe...