Mansfield: 337 books
by Heather Mansfield
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Spread your message instantly and easily—even on a shoestring budget
“In a world that seems to be overpopulated with social media experts, Heather is the real thing. Her passion and intuition have made her an invaluable resource to the nonprofit community.”
—Danielle Brigida, digital...
by Stephen Mansfield
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Tokyo seems like an ultra modern--even postmodern--city, with its inventive skyscrapers and digitized surfaces. But it is also a city where past, present, and future coexist--where backstreets both inspire science fiction and host wooden temples, fox shrines, and Buddhist statues that evoke past ages....
Songs of a Father
I Never Really Knew
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Emanuel Mansfield, touted as the Second Roland Hayes, was one of the most extraordinary tenors of his time. Despite his many life challenges, Emanuel managed to hold on to his life dreams and accomplished much more than he ever dreamed. The oldest of 18 children, the grandson of slaves, a high school...
The Search for God and Guinness
A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The history of Guinness, one of the world’s most famous brands, reveals the noble heights and generosity of a great family and an innovative business.
It began in Ireland in the mid 1700s. The water in Ireland, indeed throughout Europe, was famously undrinkable, and the gin and whiskey that...
A State Built on Sand
How Opium Undermined Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Oscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how the state was perceived, such as after the Taliban imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1. The international community's subsequent attempts to regulate opium poppy became intimately linked with its own state-building...
Beautiful Nate
A Memoir of a Family's Love, a Life Lost, and Heaven's Promises
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
HOPE and COMPASSION for FAMILIES
Beautiful Nate offers valuable insights into what went wrong in a dedicated Christian family and how things might have gone differently—giving parents direction for raising their own children in a troubled world. Exploring the differences between fear-based...
Killing Jesus
The Hidden Drama Behind the World's Most Famous Execution
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
TORTURE -- INFANTICIDE -- BRUTALITY -- MURDER
The World Would Never Be the Same
"The execution of Jesus was a crime born of the streets, the barracks, the enclaves of the privileged, and the smoke-filled back rooms of religious and political power brokers. Its meaning lives in these...
Healing Your Church Hurt
What To Do When You Still Love God But Have Been Wounded by His People
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
If you’ve been part of a church, you have probably suffered a “church hurt”—or know someone who has. Maybe the pastor had an affair or the congregation fought over money or the leaders were disguising gossip as “prayer.” Stephen Mansfield knows how it feels. Though he is now a New York...
by Katherine Mansfield, Alison MacLeod (editor)
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Ten of the best Mansfield stories specially selected by the acclaimed author and critic Alison MacLeod who also provides a critical essay. This edition is part of the new Comma Classics series, launched to celebrate past masters of the short story with structural appreciations by contemporary practitioners. MacLeod’s...
by Katherine Mansfield
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
'Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh at - nothing - at nothing, simply.'
Katherine...
An Indiscreet Journey
Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A young Englishwoman embarks on a journey to the French front lines during the First World War in an effort to meet her lover, the “Little Corporal.”
Written in a modernist style that combines and explores several narratives and perspectives, “An Indiscreet Journey” is an engaging portrayal...
In A German Pension
"To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure."
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many...
by Linda Mansfield
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
In "Stories for the 12 Days of Christmas," Linda Mansfield encourages you to find a little "me time" over the Christmas holidays to relax, put your feet up, and immerse yourself in some modern Christmas stories.They're all short, so you can fit them into your busy schedule.They're...
by Harvey C. Mansfield
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book invites-no, demands-a response from its readers. It is impossible not to be drawn in to the provocative (often contentious) discussion that Harvey Mansfield sets before us. This is the first comprehensive study of manliness, a quality both bad and good, mostly male, often intolerant, irrational,...