Long: 1733 books
Pagoda of Light
A Falun Gong Story from Today's China
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
This true story of the Bai Family in China traces how their devotion to truth placed them on a collision course with the Communist Party. When they became practitioners of Falun Gong, it paved the way for a painful and torturous, yet enlightening, path in life, especially for the two brilliant brothers...
by Charles Long
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
For over two decades Charles Long thrilled opera audiences, performing at some of America's and the world's most famous venues, and singing alongside some of its greatest stars. In his insightful, frank and humorous new memoir, Long recounts many of those experiences. In the process he sheds light...
Robert W. Service, T. 1
La Piste de l'imaginaire
Language: French
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Robert W. Service: La Piste de l'imaginaire est une biographie romancée, inspirée par une première tranche de l'existence de l'arrière-grand-père de l'auteure Charlotte Service-Longépé. Au cours de sa vie, le poète et écrivain Robert William Service (1874-1958) a rédigé une imposante œuvre...
by Gordon Long
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
ESCAPEE FROM SANDBED HELLJ. Gordon Long, PO, BSAE, MBA, Ph.D., Certified Curmudgeon, SMB, Author, RaconteurBorn in Girard, Burke County, Georgia, January 20, 1933. Earned his first degree, PO during his first seventeen years and six months in and around Girard. For those who don’t know, PO is pronounced...
Unsinkable
From Russian Orphan to Paralympic Swimming World Champion
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The top Paralympic swimmer in the world, Jessica Long delivers an inspirational photographic memoir.
Born in Siberia with fibular hemimelia, Jessica Long was adopted from a Russian orphanage at thirteen months old and has since become the second most decorated U.S. Paralympic athlete of all...
Saddam's War of Words
Politics, Religion, and the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
From a Western perspective, the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991 largely fulfilled the first President Bush's objective: "In, out, do it, do it right, get gone. That's the message." But in the Arab world, the causes and consequences of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and his subsequent...
Thirty-Eight
The Hurricane That Transformed New England
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England’s most damaging weather event ever. To call it “New England’s Katrina” might be to understate its power. Without warning, the storm plowed into Long Island and New England, killing hundreds of people...
Longy - Booze, Brawls, Sex and Scandal
The Autobiography of the Wild Man of Rugby League
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
Sean Long is Super League's No 1 bad boy and when it comes to off-the-pitch madness, no-one comes close. Not just for rugby league fans, this book is a must-read for anyone with a taste for life on the wild side. Here, the flamboyant Hull and St Helens superstar tells his hilarious, shocking and explosive...
by Lisa Marie Long
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
Home horticulture advice from Oregon State University Master Gardener Lisa Marie Long. This free eBook is a compilation of the 2011 articles published through the OSU Extension Service. Bonus: Includes the very first That's the Way it Grows from April 1997.
Invisible Mothers
When Love Doesn't Die
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Invisible Mothers gives voice to the experience of love and loss for mothers whose babies have died during pregnancy or infancy. It chronicles the journey of mothers without any living children who must learn to continue living while grieving. Their arms are empty, but their hearts are filled with...
Saving Karl Barth
Hans Urs von Balthasar's Preoccupation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Challenging recent rejections of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s groundbreaking study of Karl Barth’s theology, Stephen Long argues that these interpreters are myopically impatient with the nuances of Balthasar’s reading of Barth and fail to appreciate the longstanding theological friendship that perdured....
by Steve Long, Mark Virkler
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
If only I had a little more faith.
Have you ever thought that before? Most of us have thought it, or even heard it from others, at some point in our lives. But what exactly is faith anyway? And how do we get more of it? And if we did get more of it, could we actually move mountains into the...
Jainism
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Jainism evokes images of monks wearing face-masks to protect insects and mico-organisms from being inhaled. Or of Jains sweeping the ground in front of them to ensure that living creatures are not inadvertently crushed: a practice of non-violence so radical as to defy easy comprehension. Yet for all...
by Stephen Long
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Record unemployment rates, geopolitical unrest, global competitive pressures, volatile markets--all of these factors along with others create an unstable environment for business leaders as never previously experienced. The 21st Century is proving to be a highly unpredictable era where executives...