Desmond: 370 books
by Douglas Carlton Abrams, Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Based on a true story from Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s childhood in South Africa, Desmond and the Very Mean Word reveals the power of words and the secret of forgiveness.
Features an audio read-along read by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. When Desmond takes his new bicycle out for a ride through...
Conduct Unbecoming – A Memoir by Desmond O’Malley
The Story of One of Ireland’s Most Extraordinary and Influential Politicians
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Conduct Unbecoming is a landmark political memoir from one of Ireland’s most outspoken and respected public figures, Desmond O’Malley.
Born in Limerick in 1939, Desmond O’Malley went on to become the youngest Minister for Justice in Irish history and the founder of the Progressive Democrats,...
Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness
An Essay on Origins, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Many philosophers since Hegel have been disturbed by the thought that philosophy inevitably favors sameness over otherness or identity over difference. Originally published at a time when the issue was not so widely discussed in the English-speaking world, William Desmond here offers a constructive...
Lark's Eggs
New and Selected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
'Des Hogan is, and has always been, the real thing - a writer of great originality, dramatic flair, linguistic invention - who remakes the world every time he puts pen to paper.' Neil Jordan. Desmond Hogan is one of most remarkable literary talents to have come out of Ireland in the past half-century....
Evicted
Poverty and Profit in the American City
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
***WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE GENERAL NON-FICTION ***
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America
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In this brilliant,heartbreaking book, Matthew...
Paul Desmond - Saxophone Signature Licks
A Step-by-Step Breakdown of the Sax Styles and Techniques of a Jazz Great
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
(Signature Licks Saxophone). Examine the sophisticated sounds of a jazz sax legend with this instructional e-book with audio that explores 12 Desmond classics: Alone Together * Any Other Time * Bossa Antigua * East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) * I've Got You Under My Skin * Jazzabelle * Look...
by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2010
Creating the first truly global Bible for children of all nationalities, Desmond Tutu retells more than fifty of his most beloved Bible stories, artfully highlighting God’s desire for people of every color and every background to love one another and to find peace and forgiveness in their hearts.
The...
Keith Douglas, 1920-1944
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Keith Douglas was almost certainly the greatest poet of the Second World War. He was killed in Normandy three days after D-Day. He was only twenty-four. His short life was one of contradictions: the gifted artist and romantic, always in love with the wrong girl also enjoyed soldiering and was quick...
Displaying Death and Animating Life
Human-Animal Relations in Art, Science, and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
The number of ways in which humans interact with animals is almost incalculable. From beloved household pets to the steak on our dinner tables, the fur in our closets to the Babar books on our shelves, taxidermy exhibits to local zoos, humans have complex, deep, and dependent relationships with the...
Darwin's Sacred Cause
How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
An “arresting” and deeply personal portrait that “confront[s] the touchy subject of Darwin and race head on” (The New York Times Book Review).
It’s difficult to overstate the profound risk Charles Darwin took in publishing his theory of evolution. How and why would a quiet, respectable...
Peoplewatching
The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Peoplewatching is the culmination of a career of watching people - their behaviour and habits, their personalities and their quirks. Desmond Morris shows us how people, consciously and unconsciously, signal their attitudes, desires and innermost feelings with their bodies and actions, often more powerfully than with their words.
Erasmus Darwin
A Life of Unequalled Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
It has been said of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) that no one from his day to ours has ever rivalled him in his achievements in such a wide range of fields. He was a far-sighted scientific genius, fertile in theory and invention, and one of the foremost physicians of his time. His gift for friendship...
by David Desmond
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
First published in 1859, this biography of Honoré de Balzac by his friend and colleague Théophile Gautier is now being released in this dual language edition, with a new English translation by David Desmond followed by the original French text.
The Intimate Universal
The Hidden Porosity Among Religion, Art, Philosophy, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
William Desmond sees religion, art, philosophy, and politics as essential and distinctive modes of human practice, manifestations of an intimate universality that illuminates individual and social being. They are also surprisingly permeable phenomena, and by observing their relations, Desmond captures notes of a clandestine conversation that transforms ontology.