Christopher: 7927 books
Hitchens vs. Blair: Be It Resolved Religion Is a Force for Good in the World
Be It Resolved Religion Is a Force for Good in the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Intellectual juggernaut and staunch atheist Christopher Hitchens goes head-to-head with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, one of the Western world's most openly devout political leaders, on the highly charged topic of religion. Few world leaders have had a greater hand in shaping current events...
The Missionary Position
Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
"A religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer, and an accomplice of worldly secular powers. Her mission has always been of this kind. The irony is that she has never been able to induce anybody to believe her. It is past time that she was duly honored and taken at...
by Christopher Hitchens
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
A “brief but potent” appreciation of one of the most influential and revolutionary works of political thought “mixing biography, criticism and philosophy” (Los Angeles Times).
Christopher Hitchens, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of God Is Not Great, has been called a Tom...
by William Shakespeare, Christina Rossetti, Walt Whitman
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved...
Permissible Narratives
The Promise of Latino/a Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In his groundbreaking new study, Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature, Christopher González examines the difficulties Latina/o writers face in writing beyond the narrow expectations of U.S. readership in the stories they tell. González argues that a constrained conception...
Song of Myself
With a Complete Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
This book offers the most comprehensive and detailed reading to date of Song of Myself. One of the most distinguished critics in Whitman Studies, Ed Folsom, and one of the nation’s most prominent writers and literary figures, Christopher Merrill, carry on a dialog with Whitman, and with each other,...
by Christopher Alan Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A treatise on the greatest of Biblical verses, Matthew 19: 4-4; with the added understanding of the ideas TWO and ONE so necessary for our coming together as men and women in spirit. Author Bio: Christopher Alan Anderson (1950 - ) received the basis of his education from the University of Science...
by Christopher Alan Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
An articulation of the consciousness necessary from which the spirits of man and woman may unite in perfect love. Author Bio: Christopher Alan Anderson (1950 - ) received the basis of his education from the University of Science and Philosophy, Swannanoa, Waynesboro, Virginia. He resides in the transcendental/romantic...
by Christopher Alan Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
In this booklet, the author looks at the possibility that the universe is romantic (rather than religious) in nature, its fundamental characteristic being that of a procreant impulse between a man and a woman. Author Bio: Christopher Alan Anderson (1950 - ) received the basis of his education from...
Melville and the Idea of Blackness
Race and Imperialism in Nineteenth Century America
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
By examining the unique problems that 'blackness' signifies in Moby-Dick, Pierre, 'Benito Cereno' and 'The Encantadas', Christopher Freeburg analyzes how Herman Melville grapples with the social realities of racial difference in nineteenth-century America. Where Melville's critics typically read blackness...
Forgotten Fruits
The stories behind Britain's traditional fruit and vegetables
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
In Forgotten Fruits, Christopher Stocks tells the fascinating - often rather bizarre - stories behind Britain's rich heritage of fruit and vegetables. Take Newton Wonder apples, for instance, first discovered around 1870 allegedly growing in the thatch of a Derbyshire pub. Or the humble gooseberry...
Hope Sings, So Beautiful
Graced Encounters Across the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In Hope Sings, So Beautiful, award-winning author Christopher Pramuk offers a mosaic of images and sketches for thinking and praying through difficult questions about race. The reader will encounter the perspectives of artists, poets, and theologians from many different ethnic and racial communities.
This...
Modern Cartooning
Essential Techniques for Drawing Today's Popular Cartoons
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Aimed at beginner artists interested in cartooning and at the countless fans of cartoons, animation, and comics. Not only are cartoons a form of entertainment, but they're an incredibly popular style of drawing! With a fresh and easy-to-follow approach to cartooning, Christopher Hart shows readers...
Prater Violet
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Prater Violet concerns the filming of an unashamedly romantic and commercial musical about old Vienna. It is a stinging satirical novel about the film industry, trifling studio feuds, and the fatuous movie Prater Violet, which, ironically, counterpoints the tragic events on the world stage as Hitler's...