List 36 of books by Donald

Doing Oral History

by Donald A. Ritchie
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2003

Oral history is vital to our understanding of the cultures and experiences of the past. Unlike written history, oral history forever captures people's feelings, expressions, and nuances of language. But what exactly is oral history? How reliable is the information gathered by oral history? And what...

Travels in the White Man's Grave

Memoirs from West and Central Africa

by Donald MacIntosh
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012

In the 1950s, the interior of West and Central Africa was still known as 'The White Man's Grave'. Its forests were primeval and inhabited the minds of Westerners as places of foreboding. But to Donald MacIntosh, a 23-year-old Gaelic-speaking Scottish forester, it was a dream come true when he found...

Harbors

by Donald Quist
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016

Suspended between continents and cultures, Donald Quist charts the forceful undercurrents of an American identity. Through these essays Quist explores feelings of oppression and alienation as he wrestles with a single act of violence in a Washington, D.C. suburb, racial tensions in a rural South Carolina...

The Lotus Sūtra

A Biography

by Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016

The Lotus Sutra is arguably the most famous of all Buddhist scriptures. Composed in India in the first centuries of the Common Era, it is renowned for its inspiring message that all beings are destined for supreme enlightenment. Here, Donald Lopez provides an engaging and accessible biography of this...

Llewellyn's Truth About Runes

by Donald Tyson
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013

Join Donald Tyson on a guided tour of the history and modern use of runes.

What God Said

The 25 Core Messages of Conversations with God That Will Change Your Life and th e World

by Neale Donald Walsch
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

God’s number one message to the world: “You’ve got me all wrong.” Inspired by his nine-book Conversations with God series, many people have asked Neale Donald Walsch to find a way to deliver the most essential pieces of God’s message to us in a more succinct way. This concise...

Choosing a Bible

For Worship, Teaching, Study, Preaching, and Prayer

by Donald Kraus
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007

How do we choose among all the different Bible translations available today? How do we know which is the right one to use for specific situations? And how do we understand what factors lie behind these translations? Oxford Bible editor Donald Kraus surveys 25 different Bible translations, and discusses...

Reforming Rome

Karl Barth and Vatican II

by Donald W. Norwood
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015

Few people realize that Karl Barth, one of the twentieth century’s greatest Protestant theologians, was among a select group of non-Catholic guests who were invited to the Second Vatican Council (1962–65) to assist in the reform and renewal of the Roman Catholic Church. In Reforming Rome Donald...

Immigrant City

Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921

by Donald B. Cole
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

The violence and radicalism connected with the Industrial Workers of the World textile strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, left the popular impression that Lawrence was a slum-ridden city inhabited by un-American revolutionaries. Immigrant City is a study of Lawrence which reveals that the...

101 Reasons Not to Murder the Entire Saudi Royal Family

by Donald H. Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003

Is President Bush on the Saudi payroll? Did Osama bin Laden have good orgasms? Is Islam a religion of psychos, or does it represent ultimate truth? Is cannibalism allowed in Saudi Arabia? How about satellite TV? Caffeine? Titillating literature? Redneck bars? You may or may not find...

The Living Past

by Donald Macleod
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013

Donald Macleod, who is professor at the Free Church College in Edinburgh, looks at the past and present. Written in the form of an exchange of letters between the author and a friend's daughter, it will captivate all those who came to maturity in the Sixties, and act as a reminder of links between...

Unraveling the Family History of Jesus

A History of the Extended Family of Jesus from 100 Bc Through Ad 100 and the Influence They Had on Him, on the Formation of Christianity, and on the History of Judea

by Steven Donald Norris
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016

Unraveling the Family History of Jesus approaches Jesus as an historical figure and sheds light on the details of the settings, the circumstances, and the context in which His family lived. Steven Donald Norrisdrawing upon a wide array of sourcesbrings to this work an historians sensibility of the...

Faith That Dares to Speak

by Donald B. Cozzens
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

The Catholic Church at the dawn of the twenty-first century is arguably the last feudal system in the West. Once the feudal structure of the church is recognized, the bishops' response to the clergy abuse crisis comes into focus. Bishops and other church authorities reacted to the scandal the only...

Praying the Bible

by Donald S. Whitney
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015

“This little book is explosive and powerful.” R. Albert Mohler, Jr. When you pray, does it ever feel like you’re just saying the same old things about the same old things? Offering us the encouragement and the practical advice we’re all looking for, Donald S. Whitney, best-selling...