Francis: 3998 books
New Atlantis and The City of the Sun
Two Classic Utopias
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
In keeping with the inquisitive spirit of their times, two 17th-century writers envisioned their own philosophical and intellectual utopias. Tomasso Campanella, a Calabrian monk, published The City of the Sun in 1623, and Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis appeared in 1627. Campanella was a student...
by Francis Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Francis Bacon was an English philosopher and scientist who served as both the Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Bacon was the main figure behind the theory of empiricism which states that knowledge comes primarily from sensory experience. This edition of Preparative toward a Natural and Experimental History includes a table of contents.
by Francis Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
An apophthegm is a concise , truthful saying; a maxim, or aphorism. The following is an expansive collection of apophthegms by Francis Bacon, the famous English philosopher and scientist.
by Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Godwin
Language: French
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: June 1, 2014
"Les voyages dans la lune" est la compilation de six romans, de l’antiquité au dix-neuvième siècle, qui racontent des voyages...vers et sur la lune. A la fois oniriques, parodiques, satiriques, picaresques, initiatiques, et annonçant la science-fiction, ces romans plus ou moins connus...
Rainbow Body and Resurrection
Spiritual Attainment, the Dissolution of the Material Body, and the Case of Khenpo A Chö
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Francis V. Tiso, a noted authority on the rainbow body, explores this manifestation of spiritual realization in a wide-ranging and deeply informed study of the transformation of the material body into a body of light. Seeking evidence on the boundary between physical science and deep spirituality...
Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In the name of the Father, the Son, and ... the Holy Spirit. We pray in the name of all three, but how often do we live with an awareness of only the first two? As Jesus ascended into heaven, He promised to send the Holy Spirit—the Helper—so that we could be true and living witnesses for Christ....
Crazy Love
Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Revised & Updated Edition! God is love. Crazy, relentless, all-powerful love. Have you ever wondered if we're missing it?
It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe—the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor—loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing...
The Puritan Experiment
New England Society from Bradford to Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
This revised and updated edition of an out-of-print classic once again makes the broad background of Puritanism accessible to students and general readers. Based on a chronology that begins with the Act of Supremacy in 1534 and ends with Jonathan Edwards's death in 1758, Francis J. Bremer's interpretive...
by Felix Francis
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Jefferson Hinkley is back in the newest thriller in the Dick Francis tradition, this time on a special mission to the United States to investigate a conspiracy involving the biggest horse races in the country.
Jeff Hinkley, investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, has been seconded...
Nuclear Statecraft
History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
We are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy agenda, and issues ranging from a nuclear Iran to the global zero movement are generating sharp debate. The historical origins of our contemporary nuclear world are deeply consequential...
The Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka
The Global Failure to Protect Tamil Rights Under International Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Sri Lanka's government declared victory in May, 2009, in one of the world's most intractable wars after a series of battles in which it killed the leader of the Tamil Tigers, who had been fighting to create a separate homeland for the country's ethnic Tamil minority. The United Nations said the conflict...
The French Revolution
Faith, Desire and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The French Revolution was one of the greatest events in world history, filled with remarkable characters and dramatic events. From its beginning in 1789 to the Reign of Terror in 1793–94, and through the ups and downs of the Directory era that followed, the Revolution showed humanity at its optimistic...
by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Mr. Icky is a classic story written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and first published in 1922. This has the distinction of being the only magazine piece ever written in a New York hotel. Download and capture the New York energy in this riveting classic.
To Live and to Tell
Child Soldier Survival: Redemption of a Liberian Child Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
When eleven-year-old Francis Duworko was abducted as a child soldier, he fought for the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy not from his own ambition or interest, but out of fear of being killed and of the fear of displaying cowardice. In To Live and to Tell, Duworko narrates his war-time...