Christopher: 7927 books
Mind Warrior:
Strategies for Total Mind Domination
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
From Dr. Haha Lung, the master of mental manipulation, come these ancient mind-control techniques to overcome any foe!
The true secret to vanquishing your enemies—whether on the battlefield, in the conference room, or even in a barroom brawl—is truly knowing and understanding both yourself...
Dachau and the SS
A Schooling in Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Dachau and the SS studies the concentration camp guards at Dachau, the first SS concentration camp and a national 'school' of violence for its concentration camp personnel. Set up in the first months of Adolf Hitler's rule, Dachau was a bastion of the Nazi 'revolution' and a key springboard for the...
Love Came Down
Anglican Readings for Advent and Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
“Easter Day is the center and crown of the Christian year, but no season of that year provides us with richer material for meditation than Advent and the twelve days of Christmas.” So writes Christopher Webber in this thoughtful and inspiring collection of meditations from the most gifted Anglican...
by Christopher Cisneros-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Inspiration and guidance for Christian meditation every day of the year.
My Nuclear Family
A Coming-of-Age in America's Twenty-first Century Military
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
The unsentimental education of an idealistic, brilliant American naval officer.
It begins in 2001. Christopher Brownfield is a naïve young midshipman. His heroes at the time: Oliver North and John McCain.
In My Nuclear Family, Brownfield writes about how he loved the navy for its “rigidity...
Jackie Robinson
An Integrated Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Jackie Robinson’s story is not only a compelling drama of heroism, but also as a template of the African American freedom struggle. A towering athletic talent, Robinson’s greater impact was on preparing the way for the civil rights reform wave following WWII. But Robinson’s story has always...
A Speaking Aristocracy
Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
As cultural authority was reconstituted in the Revolutionary era, knowledge reconceived in the age of Enlightenment, and the means of communication radically altered by the proliferation of print, speakers and writers in eighteenth-century America began to describe themselves and their world in new...
Skepticism and American Faith
from the Revolution to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the dialogue of religious skepticism and faith shaped struggles over the place of religion in politics. It produced different visions of knowledge and education in an "enlightened" society. It fueled social reform in an era of economic transformation,...
Policing the Roman Empire
Soldiers, Administration, and Public Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Historians often regard the police as a modern development, and indeed, many pre-modern societies had no such institution. Most recent scholarship has claimed that Roman society relied on kinship networks or community self-regulation as a means of conflict resolution and social control. This model,...
by Christopher Christodoulou
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Sometimes a book comes along and you wonder why it has not been written before, well, here it is!
‘Only in Cyprus’ is a hilarious insight into Cyprus living. Even if you have no intention of living in Cyprus, or to even visit Cyprus, get a unique ‘tongue in cheek’ look at an extraordinary...
by Christopher Bakken
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
“We’d not slept in days, or else we were/ still sleeping—who could tell?” someone asks in the opening poem of Eternity & Oranges. The voices we encounter in this book speak on the verge of disappearance, from places marked by disintegration and terror. Christopher Bakken's poems are acts...
Finding Sanctuary
Monastic Steps for Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
In Finding Sanctuary Abbot Christopher Jamison, host of the BBC television series The Monastery, suggests the teachings of St. Benedict are a tool for everyday life for those who are religious and for those simply searching for spiritual guidance.
The Monastery involved five non-monks living...
by Christopher Durston
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
James I has traditionally been portrayed as a foolish and unpleasant man. However, the last two decades have seen a rehabilitation of James I by historians, who have begun to appreciate that in some areas, in particular foreign policy and religion, he pursued sensible policies and achieved a considerable...
by Christopher Hitchens
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2016
In The Atheist Manifesto, Christopher Hitchens presents his case against religion and for mental liberty. Hitchens argues that religion is not merely unnecessary for morality, but actually antithetical to it. In his unwaveringly logical analysis, Hitchens dismantles the moral high ground claimed by...