Frances: 2004 books

The world famous Punch Magazine, volume 108, June 29 1895.

The West without Water documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty millennia, with tales of past droughts and deluges and predictions about the impacts of future climate change on water resources. Looking at the region’s current water crisis from the perspective of its climate...

The American Medical Association asked RAND Health to characterize the factors that affect physician professional satisfaction. RAND researchers sought to identify high-priority determinants of professional satisfaction by gathering data from 30 physician practices in six states, using a combination...

Debating Single Sex Education: Separate and Equal, 2nd edition, provides a balanced summary of the context, concerns, and findings about single sex education in 21st Century United States. Few school reforms have engendered as much controversy as single sex public education. This book examines the...

There are, perhaps, few tests of excellence so sure as the popular verdict on a work of art a hundred years after its accomplishment. So much time must be allowed for the swing and rebound of taste, for the despoiling of tawdry splendours and to permit the work of art itself to form a public capable...

The current religious climate poses unique challenges to those engaged in mission. Thus the authors of this book propose a new, yet very biblical, model for interacting with people of other faiths. They term this model giftive mission, as it is based on the metaphor of free gift. We bear the greatest...

3000 years of Chinese history presented through the lives of ninety-six illustrious participants from all periods and all parts of the country China is the most populous country on earth, with the longest history of any modern nation. Here, the full range of Chinese cultural and scientific...

Our faith in God and our love of Judaism are tested daily by our turbulent world and personal challenges. In this special book, Dr. Eugene Borowitz, the leading theologian of liberal Judaism, offers a highly accessible guide to the questions we’ve all wrestled with in our spiritual lives. In these...

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A short, popular biography of the famous French Saint known as "The Father of his Country" for his remarkable charities. In early life he was captured and enslaved by the Moslems in Africa, but he escaped, returned home and did great work for God. He was canonized in just 77 years. Here...

The famous persevering mother whose prayers, patience and good example at last obtained the conversion of her wayward son - the great St. Augustine - as well as her pagan husband and her mother-in-law. Includes her childhood, difficult marriage, anguish over Augustine, constancy and - in the end -...

THE SHADOW of my First Love Love is a mystery and an emotion that I cherish and enjoy each day. It has been an exciting, interesting and volatile journey, one that has given me the opportunity to feel the many emotions that come from love. Love began in the womb and has always carried me throughout...

«Un romanzo che avviluppa il lettore in un crescendo di emozioni, brividi, tensione.» Sunday Mirror Lei ama tuo figlio. Lei vuole la tua vita Laura sa di essere una madre iperprotettiva e – in fondo – gelosa di suo figlio Daniel, un brillante neolaureato dal futuro luminoso. Così, quando...